The State Board of Education took a preliminary vote on adding biblical lessons that could come to public elementary schools. The curriculum wouldn't be required but comes with an incentive.

In a preliminary vote on Tuesday, Texas education officials approved a proposal to allow lessons about the Bible into public school classrooms, according to multiple news reports. The state Board of Education voted 8-7 to adopt standards that would teach biblical lessons to students kindergarten through fifth grade,

Officials in Texas on Tuesday backed a controversial new public school curriculum that would incorporate Christian lessons from the Bible as early as kindergarten.