🚨 Ohio has CCV. Texas has Texas Values. Your state may have its own version. 👀
In 2025, we reported on the Center for Christian Virtue’s support for LifeWise Academy and its work to expand religious instruction during Ohio’s public-school day.
🚨But LifeWise is only one piece of what CCV is building.
CCV is Ohio’s state ally in the Family Policy Alliance network. In Texas, that state ally is Texas Values. Other states have organizations operating under different names—but connected through the SAME national policy network.
⭐️And education is central to CCV’s agenda.
CCV helped push HB 8, which requires Ohio public-school districts to adopt policies permitting students to leave during the school day for programs like LifeWise. CCV openly celebrated the law as a victory for LifeWise and religious released-time instruction.
But CCV is also:
▪️ Lobbying over what public schools teach
▪️ Advancing vouchers and other funding for private religious education
▪️ Organizing hundreds of Catholic and evangelical schools through the Ohio Christian Education Network
▪️ Helping churches launch new Christian schools
▪️ Building scholarship systems to direct more money toward Christian education
▪️ Taking its Ohio model nationwide
CCV says the national Christian Education Network it founded will organize religious schools for statehouse advocacy, partner with churches to open new schools and make Ohio the hub of a nationwide Christian-education expansion effort.
➡️LifeWise is a pathway into the public-school day.
➡️Vouchers are a pathway to public funding.
➡️Curriculum laws are a pathway to controlling public education.
➡️Christian-school networks are a pathway to creating and expanding a parallel religious system.
➡️Organizations like CCV help connect those pathways—with lobbying, lawmakers, churches, schools, money and national partners.
Different names. Different states. One interconnected movement to reshape education around a conservative Christian worldview.
These stories CANNOT be viewed separately.
Who is operating in your state?
What people are saying:
- Secular Education Association: Sources & further reading:
🔹 Family Policy Alliance – State Allies (includes Ohio’s Center for Christian Virtue, Texas Values, and other state organizations)
🔹 Family Policy Alliance – About the national network (“39+ state partner organizations”)
🔹 CCV celebrating HB 8 and LifeWise Academy
https://www.ccv.org/news/breaking-committee-passes-parents-bill-of-rights-lifewise-academy-religious-released-time🔹 CCV praising Attorney General Dave Yost’s defense of released-time religious instruction
https://www.ccv.org/news/attorney-general-reaffirms-right-to-school-release-time-for-religious-instruction🔹 Ohio Christian Education Network (a division of CCV): mission, school expansion, vouchers, scholarships, and advocacy
https://ohiocen.org/about-us🔹 Family Policy Alliance describing how its state allies work together to advance policy across the states
🔹 The Buckeye Flame on CCV’s reclassification by the Southern Poverty Law Center
Ohio’s Center for Christian Virtue reclassified as anti-LGBTQ+ hate group
- Facebook User: I checked the website, and deep red Missouri isn’t listed. This really surprised me! Could my state government be affiliated with a different group? I’m really interested in this information, so any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!
- Facebook User: Ohio has wanted to be Texas ever since republicans took majority. 😡
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