Secular Education Association

They said it themselves. Watch the full video. The screenshots show exactly where it came from: Henry Kaestner shared it on LinkedIn. Kaestner is the co-founder of Faith Driven Entrepreneur and Faith Driven Investor, a co-founder and partner at Sovereign’s Capital, and the former CEO/chairman of Bandwidth. With him are Tim Stoller, a founding board… Read More

KENTUCKY UPDATE 🚨 The “moral instruction” amendment that was added to Kentucky HB 253 (a bipartisan reading bill) is now expected to be withdrawn after backlash and scrutiny. Let’s be clear about what happened: A bill about reading instruction suddenly had language added that would have required schools to allow outside organizations to provide moral… Read More

OHIO We submitted proponent testimony today in support of Ohio SB 341, the bill to end child marriage in Ohio by setting 18 as the minimum marriage age with no exceptions. Current Ohio law still allows some 17-year-olds to marry with court approval. SEA supports SB 341 because children deserve clear legal protections — not… Read More

LOUISIANA – Livingston Parish just voted unanimously to put the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. Let’s stop pretending this is about “religious freedom.” Students already have the right to pray and hold religious beliefs in public schools. This is about government using the classroom to promote a specific religious tradition. Public schools are… Read More

This is coming out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. And it says the quiet part out loud. When people openly describe their goal as revival, mass salvation, and conversion within public schools, this is no longer something anyone should dismiss as harmless or isolated. Students already have individual religious freedom.That is not what this is about. This… Read More

This is all connected. ✔️LifeWise and other RTRI programs✔️“moral instruction” pushes✔️chaplain bills✔️Ten Commandments postings✔️Good News Club✔️Fellowship of Christian Athletes✔️See You at the Pole✔️Charlie Kirk’s Ohio bill✔️Success sequence / Character education bills None of this is random.None of it exists in a vacuum.And none of it should be viewed as harmless on its own. These are… Read More

Midwest Electric members in Ohio rounded up their bills to support community needs.One of the groups funded? LifeWise. According to this grant list, Columbus Grove Character Academy (LifeWise) received $1,000 for a large-screen TV and tables.On that same list were groups funding EMS equipment, fire services, police safety tools, food pantry support, meal programs, behavioral… Read More

🚨 KENTUCKY ALERT HB 253 was introduced as a bipartisan reading and language arts bill. That is what Kentucky lawmakers filed, and that is what the bill is officially titled. Now the Kentucky Legislature’s own record shows “moral instruction” attached to HB 253 by Senate floor amendment. So let’s be clear about what happened here:… Read More

ARKANSAS —LifeWise Academy has now opened in Benton and one detail in this articleshould make people pause. According to the report, the program began instruction on March 11 and already has 20 of 78 first graders enrolled at Caldwell Elementary. That is 25.6% of the entire first-grade class. For a brand-new “pilot project,” that is… Read More

We’ve been warning that this is bigger than just “optional Bible class.” Here’s one more receipt. This image places LifeWise Academy in the Education category of the Seven Mountains Mandate — a framework that treats education as a sphere for Christian cultural influence. We’ve been documenting these ties for a while. Follow along — we’ll… Read More

We’re proud to share that our Executive Director has a letter to the editor published in the Washington Post Opinions section. Texas officials were rightly criticized for excluding Muslim schools from the state’s voucher program. But the deeper problem is bigger than unequal treatment between religions. It is the voucher system itself. Once taxpayer money… Read More

Support SEA on Venmo at @SecularEducationAssociation. If you’d like to support our work protecting secular, inclusive public education and advocating for church-state separation in schools, Venmo is now one more easy way to do that. Please note: donations are not currently tax-deductible; 501(c)(3) status is pending. Thank you to everyone helping us build and sustain… Read More

West Virginia schools need funding, support, and resources. Instead, they got God signs. WV just required public schools to hang “In God We Trust” signs. Before you come in hot with, “it’s our nAtIoNaL motto”… Yes. Technically. But let’s talk about why it’s our motto. “In God We Trust” did not become the official U.S.… Read More

ARKANSAS blocked the Ten Commandments in classrooms. But LifeWise had already found another way in. A federal judge has now permanently blocked Arkansas’s Ten Commandments classroom-display law, ruling that Act 573 violates students’ rights and interferes with parents’ rights over their children’s religious upbringing. That matters. But it should also raise a bigger question: while… Read More

LifeWise is often framed as a local story. A few parents. A church. A district decision. But what we keep seeing across public records, legislation, lobbying, and internal strategy is something much bigger. What looks local is part of a broader national effort to change state laws, remove local discretion, and make it harder for… Read More