Secular Education Association

🚨 CALIFORNIA HAS CALIFORNIA FAMILY COUNCIL. Different state. Different name. Same national policy network. California Family Council (CFC) is officially listed by Family Policy Alliance as its California state ally. (Family Policy Alliance⁠) And when it comes to public education and public policy, CFC is VERY active. 👉 Public-school policy: CFC is currently organizing around… Read More

🚨This is a big deal out of COLORADO — but dissolution cannot be the end of this story. Education reEnvisioned BOCES — the publicly funded education cooperative behind Colorado’s so-called “public Christian school,” Riverstone Academy — is being dissolved. And it is VERY important to be clear about what happened here. This was not simply… Read More

🎙️ TONIGHT: SEA co-founder Zachary Parrish is joining HoosLeft’s Back-to-School Special! The panel will dig into the major issues affecting Indiana’s public schools—including funding, governance, school policy and the growing transfer of power away from locally elected school boards. 📅 Tonight, August 18⏰ 7 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. CT Watch live and bring your… Read More

🚨If you’re only watching your local school board, you’re already behind. -A Bible program shows up in one district. -The Ten Commandments appear in another. -A state introduces a school chaplain bill. -Kids start leaving public school during the day for religious instruction. -A “parental rights” organization suddenly appears at the statehouse. -A Christian policy… Read More

🚨 TEXAS’ TEN COMMANDMENTS LAW MAY BE HEADED TO THE SUPREME COURT. More than two dozen Texas families — including religious and nonreligious families — have now asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the state law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public-school classrooms. (AP News⁠) 🚨And this case matters far beyond… Read More

Our Ohio attendance post sparked a much bigger question: What counts as an absence in YOUR state? Because these things are not always treated the same way: 🏥 Medical appointments🧠 Therapy♿ Disability-related care📖 Released-time religious instruction A parent may have a completely legitimate reason for taking a child out of school for medical care or… Read More

🚨 OHIO PARENTS: Here’s something about the new attendance rules that deserves a closer look. Ohio has tracked student attendance in hours for years. What’s changing for the 2026–27 school year is the attendance-policy framework districts have to use when those hours start adding up. Ohio now requires district policies to recognize that absences —… Read More

🚨 ARIZONA HAS THE CENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY.Different state. Different name. Same national policy network. The Center for Arizona Policy (CAP) is officially listed by Family Policy Alliance as its Arizona state ally. And when it comes to public education, CAP is VERY active. 👉 Released-time religious instruction: In 2026, CAP backed HB 2266, which… Read More

👉Religious freedom is a right. 🚫Religious access to someone else’s child is not. You have every right to raise your child in your faith. 💜Take them to church.Pray with them.Read scripture together.Enroll them in religious education.Teach them what you believe and why you believe it. That is religious freedom. 🇺🇸 👉 But public schools are… Read More

Okay, Have A Gay Day shared this and we need to talk about it. 😳 First, important context: this is not actually a children’s Bible. It comes from Awkward Moments (Not Found in Your Average) Children’s Bible, which uses illustrations to highlight bizarre, violent, sexual, or otherwise very-not-Sunday-school-friendly Bible stories. BUT THE STORY ITSELF? Yep.… Read More

👀 How close is LifeWise to your school? LifeWise pulls public school students out of the school day for off-site Christian instruction — and it’s spreading well beyond Ohio. 🗺️ Check the map. Search your district. Then look around you. 📍 map.seculareducationassociation.org Know what’s happening before it’s on your doorstep. What people are saying: Facebook… Read More

👀 Think LifeWise is just an Ohio problem? Take a closer look. It may already be a lot closer to home than you think. LifeWise removes public school students from the school day for off-site Christian instruction — and it’s organizing in districts across the country. Swipe through the maps. 🗺️ Then search your own… Read More

We’ve talked about the “Success Sequence” before. But this week, Center for Christian Virtue is celebrating getting it into Ohio education curriculum. So let’s talk about what students are actually being told — and the worldview behind it. The Success Sequence says the path to avoiding poverty is: -Graduate high school.-Get a full-time job.-Get married… Read More

LifeWise’s favorite legal talking point leaves out the most inconvenient part of Zorach: THE PUBLIC SCHOOL HAD TO REMAIN NEUTRAL. Not recruit.Not advertise.Not fundraise.Not use school staff to track or administer participation.Not help the ministry grow. So no — “off campus, privately funded, parent permitted” is not a magic constitutional formula. Zorach upheld one program… Read More

🚨 THIS IS NOT JUST A NEW CHRISTIAN-SCHOOL NETWORK. IT IS AN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR DEFUNDING, DIVIDING AND RELIGIOUSLY RESHAPING PUBLIC EDUCATION. 🚨 Yesterday, we introduced you to Alaska Family Action and the national political network operating behind it. Then, exactly one week ago, Alaska Family Council announced that it is “linking arms” with Aaron Baer’s… Read More