On Monday, the Texas House gave final passage to Senate Bill 10, changing from the version previously passed by the Senate.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks with the Dallas Morning News inside the Texas Governor's Mansion Feb. 3, 2025 in Austin. (Azul Sordo / Staff Photographer) AUSTIN — The Ten Commandments would have ...

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods ...

But Texas Republicans have said a 2022 Supreme Court case paved the way for the Ten Commandments bill to become law in this ...

The first call came in the early hours of the morning in the fall of 2021, informing the Allen Independent School District Director ... To address the issue in Texas, two years ago, state ...

AUSTIN - A controversial bill requiring all Texas public ... fees to a school district if any lawsuit emerges. More specifically, the Bill requires every classroom to display a poster with the ...

That bill, Senate Bill 10, passed in the Texas ... US District Court ruling. It is currently before a US Fifth Circuit Appeals Court. That law did not require school districts to fund the posters ...

A copy of the Ten Commandments could soon be posted in every public school classroom in Texas under a Republican-backed plan ...

Under Texas’ bill, all public elementary or secondary schools would have to “display in a conspicuous place in each classroom of the school a durable poster ... or may use district funds ...

A mother is accused of supporting her son’s plot to carry out a mass shooting at a middle school and buying him ammo and gear to do so, Texas officials ... to a campus map, a section of which ...