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PLANO, Texas, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- A 2007 Texas law requiring high schools to teach Bible literacy has provided no guidelines for teachers, school officials said Sunday.
The law provides for "religious neutrality" in that it requires teacher training, state government-approved curriculum standards and materials. Training, however, is not clearly described and no funds have been allocated for Bible literacy training or implementation, The Dallas Morning News reported Sunday.
"Asking a school district to teach a course or include material in a course without providing them any guidance or resources is like sending a teacher into a minefield without a map," said Mark Chancey, author of a report, "Teaching the Bible in Texas Public Schools," and associate professor of religious studies at Southern Methodist University.
Plano, Texas, school officials realized when the state attorney general clarified the law in 2008, that a whole course devoted to Bible literacy was optional, but the lessons were necessary.
Most North Texas districts have chosen to incorporate Old and New Testament studies into existing classes, the newspaper said.
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