Secular Education Association

New Featured Article in Church & State Magazine! We’re proud to share that Secular Education Association’s Executive Director, Molly Gaines, is featured in the December 2025 issue of Church & State Magazine, published by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The article offers a clear, accessible look at the rapid rise of Released… Read More

🚨TENNESSEE🚨 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐈𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 — 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐏𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲? Blount County Schools ᴊᴜsᴛ voted to send a religious release time policy to committee — a move that could allow students to leave class during the school day for Bible instruction run by the Elgin Children’s Foundation.… Read More

🚨OHIO 🚨 Ohio lawmakers just introduced a bipartisan bill to help schools offer kosher and halal meal options. It’s a small grant program with one simple purpose: Make sure Jewish and Muslim students can eat lunch without violating their faith. That’s it.No class time lost.No religious group gaining access to students.No disruption of instruction. Just… Read More

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🚨OHIO – Northwest🚨📢𝙱𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙺𝙸𝙽𝙶: 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙰𝚗𝚘𝚗𝚢𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝙰𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝚘𝚏 𝙿𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚆𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝙸𝚜 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚜𝚎 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝙴𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍 Last week, the Secular Education Association was anonymously sent a link to a publicly archived, unedited, continuous audio recording of Pastor Steven Whitlow of Redemption Church (Monclova, Ohio). We did not record it. We did not upload it. It was… Read More

🚨OHIO🚨 📣 Ohio’s New Release-Time Law Is Fueling LifeWise’s Rapid Expansion — But Parents Are Sounding the Alarm A new Ohio Capital Journal article lays out exactly what many of us have been warning: the moment Ohio required every school district to adopt a release-time policy, LifeWise exploded across the state. LifeWise is now operating… Read More

🌲 LifeWise Tried to Use a Public Library for Recruitment — and the Community Spoke Up A member of our Secular Education Association (formerly Parents AGAINST Lifewise) private group spotted something concerning this week: 👀LifeWise West Unity set up a “LifeWise Giving Tree” inside the West Unity Branch Library, complete with donation requests and staffing… Read More

🚨Everett, Washington is in the national spotlight—and we need to talk about why. This week, the Secular Education Association (SEA) formally submitted a letter to the Everett School Board regarding LifeWise Academy’s Released Time Religious Instruction (RTRI) program. Everett has faced intense pressure from LifeWise, an Ohio-based organization attempting to force districts across the country… Read More

🚨 WASHINGTON🚨EVERETT: Children — including kindergarteners — were released to an adult parents did not authorize As Everett Public Schools.WA is being pressured to weaken its release-time safeguards, these documents reveal a serious student-safety problem happening right now. 1️⃣ The parent’s handwritten permission slip is clear: It explicitly says: “with Sarah Sweeney.”That is the only… Read More

WASHINGTON 🚨 NEW: Remember our post from yesterday about Everett Public Schools.WA ? Yesterday we shared that LifeWise Academy — backed by First Liberty and a national law firm — had issued a legal threat to Everett Public Schools. Here’s the link if not – https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BfpDogLcC/ Today, we’re publishing the actual letter so Washington families… Read More

🚨 WASHINGTON: LifeWise is threatening Everett — and trying to rewrite the rules for every district. LifeWise Academy, backed by First Liberty and a big out-of-state law firm, has sent a 5-page threat letter to the Everett Public School Board. In that letter, they claim: Everett Public Schools.WA is showing “animus toward religion” Board members… Read More

✨ This Giving Tuesday, we’re doing something simple — and real. So much of the conversation around religion and public schools happens on giant stages — big nonprofits, big campaigns, big numbers. But kids don’t live on giant stages. Kids live in the everyday realities of school — where something as small as having school… Read More

🚨OHIO🚨 🚨Northwest Ohio — this one is going to rattle some cages. Read to the end. The Toledo Blade Editorial Board Ignored All This — So Here Are the Receipts. A couple weeks ago, The Blade’s religion editor published an important investigation about growing concerns from families across Anthony Wayne, Perrysburg, Maumee, Sylvania, Swanton, Otsego,… Read More

🚨 When a public school district promotes a private religious program, families deserve answers. Switzerland of Ohio Local School District used its official Facebook page to advertise LifeWise Academy — a private, religious program that operates off-campus during the public-school day. This is not simply “sharing information.”This is the district promoting a specific religious organization,… Read More

Religious public schools are the next major front in the battle over church–state separation — and 2026 is shaping up to be a turning point. Forbes is reporting that multiple groups are now intentionally trying to create “test cases” to force the Supreme Court to decide whether public charter schools can legally be religious. Here’s… Read More