📄 We’ve submitted a formal letter of opposition to Indiana SB 88.
The Secular Education Association has submitted a formal letter of opposition to Indiana Senate Bill 88 (2026 Session).
While SB 88 is framed as an education bill, it combines sweeping and ideologically driven mandates that fundamentally alter the role of public schools. Our opposition is based on serious concerns about academic freedom, professional standards, local control, and the constitutional neutrality required of public education.
Among other provisions, Indiana SB 88:
• Mandates ideological and moral instruction unrelated to academic standards
• Restricts classroom discussion through vague and subjective language
• Requires the inclusion of the Ten Commandments in mandatory middle-school civics courses
• Weakens teacher licensure and professional safeguards
• Forces colleges to accept the Classic Learning Test by statute rather than evidence-based review
Public schools serve students from many backgrounds, beliefs, and family structures. They must remain neutral spaces focused on education—not vehicles for political or religious agendas imposed by law.
📌 Our full opposition letter outlines these concerns in detail and is part of the public record.
👉 Read the letter here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T73INCUjOSqwF2hK4X3y7HKNh3XjZy–X3e3e4G58PM/edit?usp=sharing
What people are saying:
- Secular Education Association: Tagging for Visibility – Facebook User Facebook User Indiana Democracy in ACTION! Facebook User Facebook User Facebook User
- Facebook User: Please also look into the following bills in Indiana legislation as well:
HB1086: Public schools must display the Ten Commandments in each classroom and library in durable poster or framed picture.
HB 1232 (Bible as Literature): Requires age-appropriate instruction on the Bible’s history, ethics, Jesus’ life, and influence on Western civilization, emphasizing a secular, non-dogmatic approach
- Facebook User: Facebook User neither of these bills are on the schedule for the house education committee today. The deadline to pass committee is Monday. Therefore they are dead bills. However language can be added last minute at the end of session to another bill so it’s important to stay alert.
You can find the process, deadlines and a break down of bills at madvoters.org/bill-tracker - Facebook User: Facebook User Well House Education is going to meet Monday and just added 1086 😕 After amending out some language of SB 88.
- Facebook User: Facebook User neither of these bills are on the schedule for the house education committee today. The deadline to pass committee is Monday. Therefore they are dead bills. However language can be added last minute at the end of session to another bill so it’s important to stay alert.
- Facebook User: As a Hoosier, THANK YOU!!!!
- Facebook User: Way to go!! It is so impactful that things are being called out before they can slide under the radar.
- Facebook User: Thank you for standing up for public education!
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- Facebook User: If they had forced this in me when I was teaching, I would have displayed them on a post-it note.
- Facebook User: Excellent
- Facebook User: Words do not suffice.
- Facebook User: Why would ANYONE want this?
- Facebook User: Facebook User They desire indoctrination, not education. They want children to be told what to think, not develop critical thinking skills.
- Facebook User: What a crock of sh-t!
- Facebook User: That’s awful.
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