In Texas...

School districts won’t be forced to introduce the curriculum in their kindergarten through fifth-grade classrooms, but if they choose to do so, they would earn a financial incentive of $60 per child beginning next year.

“When a public school plays religious favorites by emphasizing Christianity more than any other tradition, and by teaching about Christianity in a way that’s likely to promote encouragement of Christianity’s religious claims, then that violates all of our religious freedom,” Chancey said on NBC News Now.

Separation of church and state? Religion in public schools is being tested by Christian conservatives