And it could dramatically reshape the classroom reading diet for many of the more than 5.5 million students in the state’s public schools. “This list does not represent the students of Texas,” said Tiffany Clark, a Democratic board member. In 2024, the state board of education voted to approve Bluebonnet Learning, a state-developed curriculum that includes Christian teaching in elementary school lessons. “At my school, students read The Great Gatsby, they read the Odyssey, Night, Shakespeare,” he said. “If I am reading a book in school, my job should be to figure out what the perspective of the author is.