 It was awful. Oklahoma's top educators ordered the Bible to be taught in public schools after a state Supreme Court decision calling religious charter schools unconstitutional. Andrew Seidel is with Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Public schools can teach about religion, but not preach it as truth. They can educate about religion and the books that religions revere, but they cannot indoctrinate children into a religion. CBS News Brief. I'm Peter King.