Texas will require King James Ten Commandments posters in every public classroom beginning Sept. 1 if posters are donated or district-funded. Many school districts are scrambling; some are delaying display after a federal judge's ruling against the mandate, while others are fundraising or accepting donated posters. The law is part of a multi-state effort aimed at the Supreme Court's conservative majority to loosen restrictions on prayer in public schools. Attorney General Ken Paxton ordered districts that were not in the recent lawsuit to display copies and declared opposition to perceived cultural erasure. Conservative groups have coordinated fundraising, claiming enough posters for classrooms serving three million students.
With a new state law set to kick in Monday requiring the TenCommandments be displayed in everypublic classroom in Texas, many school districts this week are scrambling to figureout what to do. Some are holding off following a federal judge's recent ruling against the mandate. Others are racing to fundraise for donated posters of the commandments. The law - and others like it in Louisiana and Arkansas - is part of a coordinated effort to get the issue to the Supreme Court's conservative majority,
"The woke radicals seeking to erase our nation's history will be defeated. I will not back down from defending the virtues and values that built this country," Paxton said in his statement. The Texas law doesn't require districts to spend their own money on the posters of the King James version of the Ten Commandments, but they must display donated posters.
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