More than 350 schools in 43 states have implemented courses on
the Bible for the 2009-2010 academic year, a new report reveals.
Leading the pack is Texas where more than 50 schools are
teaching the course this fall, according to data from the Bible
Literacy Project, which publishes The Bible and Its Influence, a
student textbook designed for public school courses on the
Bible. Right behind Texas, schools in Georgia, California and
Indiana are widely teaching lessons on the Bible using the Bible
Literacy textbook. More than 10 percent of Georgia public high
schools and more than 5 percent of public high schools in
Alabama, Indiana and South Carolina are utilizing the program,
said Chuck Stetson, chairman of the Bible Literacy Project
board. The Bible and Its Influence – reviewed by 40 religious
and legal scholars representing evangelical, mainline
Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox and Jewish communities – is
reportedly the first student textbook that fulfills the legal
standards of The Bible & Public Schools: A F