Secular Education Association

🚨 HERE IT IS. We’ve been telling you all day that as soon as CBS Texas posted the first LifeWise segment online, we would get you the link. Part One is here. 👉 https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/texas-law-public-schools-bible-classes/ This is the first installment in CBS Texas’s three-part investigation into LifeWise Academy and released-time religious instruction. Watch it. Read it.… Read More

TONIGHT. 🚨 10 PM Central / 11 PM Eastern on CBS Texas. Part one of the three-night LifeWise Academy investigation starts tonight. We’ll share the report as soon as it’s available online. What people are saying: Facebook User: Do you know if this will be streaming anywhere? Facebook User: Facebook User http://CBSTexas.com/live CBS news app… Read More

🚩FLORIDA: FLORIDA FAMILY VOICE Florida Family Voice — formerly the Florida Family Policy Council — is part of the same Family Policy Alliance network we’ve been tracing state by state.And Florida is especially revealing because the organization isn’t shy about what it wants. Florida Family Voice says it is grounded in a Biblical worldview and… Read More

Dolly Parton believed every child deserved a book. 📚✨ Not every Christian child.Not every child whose parents believed what she believed.Not every child who could afford one. EVERY child. 💗 ✨Dolly was a woman of deep faith who understood something profoundly important about education: helping children learn does not require making them share your religion.… Read More

🚩WE CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH: If you thought your school board voted LifeWise down — check again. If you thought LifeWise tried your district and failed — check again. If you looked last year and thought there wasn’t much interest — CHECK AGAIN. Please. For the love of public education, GO LOOK AT THE MAP.… Read More

🚩DELAWARE: DELAWARE FAMILY POLICY COUNCIL Delaware Family Policy Council is the official Delaware ally of Family Policy Alliance. Its own website says it is building a statewide network of people “strategically placed” in their spheres of influence — and it specifically names school administrators, school board members, and educators alongside pastors, legislators, and local officials.… Read More

We’ve been sitting on this one for a little while. Starting tomorrow, CBS Texas is airing a three-part series on LifeWise Academy — Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 10 PM. SEA co-founder Zach Parrish was interviewed for the series and will be featured in parts two and three. Over the course of their reporting, we… Read More

🚨 CONNECTICUT HAS FAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT. Different state. Different name. SAME national policy network. Family Institute of Connecticut (FIC) is officially listed by Family Policy Alliance as its Connecticut state ally. And when it comes to public education, FIC is VERY active. 👉 School boards: In 2025, FIC promoted a School Board Academy specifically… Read More

Colorado is where the bigger picture comes into focus. 🔎 🚨Family Policy Alliance is not simply trying to influence public education. They are helping build the infrastructure to replace secular public education. From Colorado Springs, Family Policy Alliance coordinates a national network of state organizations, trains Christian legislators, trains school board members and candidates, supplies… Read More

We hear this constantly: “Have you contacted the ACLU? Americans United? FFRF?” Yes. We have contacted all of them. Repeatedly. We’ve been in internal meetings.We’ve spoken at their conferences.We’ve supplied data, documentation, and firsthand accounts from families.We’ve asked them to help sound the alarm — while fully understanding that not every case can or should… Read More

Here’s something that gets deliberately confused FAR too often: 👉 Keeping public schools secular does NOT mean keeping religious students silent. Students do not surrender their beliefs when they walk through the school doors.They can pray.They can talk about their faith.They can read religious texts.They can participate in religious clubs under the same rules as… Read More

🚨HIS MOTHER SAID NO.WHY WAS THAT NOT ENOUGH? At Westfield’s back-to-school event, a Turning Point USA/Club America booth offered a bracelet to an 8-year-old child.His mother said no and pulled him away. 👉That should have been the end of it. Instead, Sophia Hunt — the 17-year-old president of the Westfield High School chapter — CONTINUED… Read More

🚨 “YOU’RE GOING TO HELL FOR NOT BEING IN LIFEWISE.” 👆A third grader said that to a classmate at her public school. -Her teacher documented it.-The child admitted saying it. She served detention for it. 😔-And the mother of the child who SAID IT contacted us. Her daughter was already Christian. She already went to… Read More

🧠 FUN FACT FRIDAY: Why Ohio? Ever wonder why Ohio became ground zero for LifeWise Academy? LifeWise’s roots trace back to Van Wert, Ohio. In 2012, a ministry called Cross Over the Hill began providing released-time Bible education to public school students in Van Wert. LifeWise says that program eventually inspired Joel Penton — a… Read More

You call this “RESPECT”? LifeWise gives students this scenario: “My teacher says I should stop talking about God at school because it makes other students uncomfortable.” 🚩And the “correct” response is to keep doing it. The same lesson tells kids that when their parents say church is a waste of time and they should stay… Read More