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…

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…

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…

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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.…

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…

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…

This article says a lot more than I think its writers intended. In Richland County, Ohio; LifeWise Academy was featured in a 31 churches in 31 days “March of Prayer” effort built around revival, spiritual renewal, and uniting the church community. The article even quotes Pastor Paul Lintern talking about “claiming Mansfield for God.” And…

This gets at a much bigger problem. We are watching lawmakers use the language of “rigor,” “virtue,” “tradition,” and “classical education” while actively hollowing out the parts of public education that foster critical thinking, context, and genuine intellectual depth. At SEA, we believe public education should prepare students to think, question, analyze, and learn —…

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ky-bill-pushing-religion-over-090703726.html Kentucky’s HB 829 is a dangerous push to force public schools to accommodate off-campus religious instruction during the school day. This is not neutrality.It is not harmless.And it is not about protecting public education. When lawmakers pressure school districts to build religious programming into the structure of the school day, they are privileging religion…

We’re grateful to see this ruling and grateful to the advocates, families, and legal teams who stood up for church-state separation in public schools. A federal court has permanently enjoined Arkansas’s classroom Ten Commandments law — a law requiring public schools to display a government-chosen, Protestant version of a sacred religious text in every classroom…

An Ohio school board member resigned after pro-Nazi and Holocaust-denial posts came to light. That is not just “controversial.”It is disqualifying. But this cannot be treated as one isolated problem. Antisemitism does not always begin with open praise for Hitler. It also grows in environments where exclusionary theology is normalized, where “us vs. them” religious…

This isn’t about one woman. It’s about how a school-day religious program gets normalized. A glowing local feature out of La Porte County, Indiana presents LifeWise as wholesome community good. But the article itself says students are pulled from school for it “in lieu of one extracurricular class each week,” describes the curriculum as Bible-based,…

LifeWise is often presented as a simple local effort. A few parents. A church. A Bible class. But when you follow the records, the legislation, the lobbying, and the political relationships, a very different picture starts to emerge. This is a longer video, but it connects the dots. In this presentation, we break down how…

⭐️NEW SEA EDUCATOR RESOURCE GUIDE🍎 If LifeWise Academy or another released-time religious instruction program comes to your school, educators deserve clear, practical guidance. The Secular Education Association has created an Educator Resource Guide to help teachers, staff, counselors, aides, and administrators understand their professional boundaries, protect instructional time, remain neutral in their official roles, and…