A bill passed by Texas lawmakers would allow teachers and school employees to pray or engage in religious speech while on ...

AUSTIN — Texas public school leaders ... The bill does not make participation of prayer or reading of religious texts compulsory.” Later on Tuesday, state senators began debate on a bill ...

Republican lawmakers in the Texas Senate pushed forward a bill late Tuesday that would allow public school teachers to pray ...

Prayer? In public schools? In a state that allows religious chaplains to do the work of trained school counselors, April Cubriel is that rare creature who is both.

The Texas Senate has ... off or are we worse off since prayer was taken out of public school in the 1960s? and I think I know what the answer to that is," said State Senator Mayes Middleton ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas public school ... The bill does not make participation of prayer or reading of religious texts compulsory.” Later on Tuesday, state senators began debate on a bill ...

State Sen. Mayes Middleton (R-Galveston) filed SB 11, which would allow schools to designate time during the school day for prayer and Bible reading. "In Texas, our schools are not God-free zones.

That’s prayer in schools. It is not a fight for separation between church and state.” This story was originally published by The Texas Tribune and distributed through a partnership with The ...

The Senate passed a bipartisan bill Tuesday to put prayer back in public schools. SB 11, filed by state Sen. Mayes Middleton, R-Galveston, passed by a vote of 23-7. It heads to the Texas House.