🚨Nearly 60%. LifeWise Eastern Pulaski says it served 228 students last school year at Eastern Pulaski Elementary School in Winamac, Indiana. LifeWise serves grades 1–5 at this school. Available enrollment figures put those grades at roughly 390 students. 228 out of roughly 390 = about 58–59%. That’s nearly 6 out of every 10 students in… Read More

This is a school board meeting for PUBLIC SCHOOLS in Blount County, Tennessee. Watch how this meeting opens. And during this very same meeting, the Blount County Board of Education voted to allow the Ten Commandments to be prominently displayed in its public schools. Then they approved an agreement with the Elgin Children’s Foundation allowing… Read More

🚨NORTH CAROLINA: this is what happens when a community starts pushing back. LifeWise Academy had become a major controversy in New Hanover County. 👀Parents and community members were showing up at school board meetings. The issue was big enough that the board voted unanimously to hold a dedicated public hearing before deciding whether LifeWise should… Read More

Apparently Paden City Elementary in West Virginia doesn’t understand they have a constitutional responsibility to remain neutral and not endorse religious programming. This is exactly what inherent coercion looks like. Students being told by their school, on the school’s official platform, that they can’t grow as a whole person without LifeWise’s indoctrination. In 1992 in… Read More

The New Hanover County Board of Education has been making headlines in North Carolina this week for voting 5-1 in favor of cancelling a public hearing on LifeWise Academy that had already been planned for quite some time. Parents and activists in the community were highly anticipating this hearing, which was expected to draw a… Read More

🎉 Back to school season can be an exciting time for students. 🎉 It can also be intimidating. It’s a time when students are faced with an onslaught of changes. New buildings, new faces, new teachers, new schedules, new lessons and new routines. These experiences are exactly why it is so imperative for public schools… Read More

New London Local Schools in Ohio was one of the earliest communities to implement a LifeWise program and according to reporting from the Norwalk Reporter, was the first program in the nation to infiltrate every grade in their schools. All K-12. In July, Secular Education Association noticed that LifeWise’s internal tracking systems had changed the… Read More

We’re sick and tired of LifeWise Academy having no accountability and facing no repercussions for failing to abide by their own legal agreements. Secular Education Association has been continuously forced to make LifeWise abide by the terms of the settlement agreement they signed with SEA co-founder Zachary Parrish in December 2024. When we published their… Read More

Alabama has the Alabama Policy Institute. 🚨ARKANSAS HAS FAMILY COUNCIL. Different names 👉 The SAME national policy network. We told you these organizations are not operating in isolation. Family Policy Alliance lists Family Council as its Arkansas state ally…just as it lists the Alabama Policy Institute in Alabama, Texas Values in Texas and the Center… Read More

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports a public school teacher in Arkansas scheduled a student for a LifeWise class without the student’s knowledge – “My (elective) for monday April 13th says i’m going to a church??” the student wrote. “What is lifewise academy? I’m honestly a bit confused.” The teacher, Caitlin Altman, wrote back: “So since you didnt… Read More

📣 Did you know we recently published a major update to SEA’s LifeWise tracking map? Map users can now find a comprehensive collection of LifeWise’s employees, volunteers, host locations, and connected churches for each active program! 🚨We are tracking almost 40,000 employees and over 12,000 host locations or connected churches!🚨 To find out who’s involved… Read More

Something in this post from Indiana’s Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith caught our eye. Some of you may remember that LifeWise went all around Ohio with Jon Husted (the states Lt. Gov. at the time) who was also hosting roundtables exclusively for religious leaders and school administrators that were not open to the public. Well if… Read More

🚨 THIS IS WHAT “OPTIONAL” LOOKS LIKE INSIDE A PUBLIC SCHOOL. A parent shared this with us about a released-time religious program that is not LifeWise: Most of the class leaves. Her children stay behind with only one other student. And the teacher does not know what to do with them. That is not a… Read More

🚨 TEXAS HAS TEXAS VALUES. ALABAMA HAS THE ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE. Different names- The SAME national policy network. We told you these organizations are not operating in isolation. Family Policy Alliancelists the Alabama Policy Institute (API) as its Alabama state ally—just as it lists Texas Values in Texas and the Center for Christian Virtue in… Read More

👉THIS is what “optional” looks like to the child who stays behind. While classmates leave together for released time for religious instruction (RTRI), the remaining students are often given crafts, free time, or filler work because teachers cannot move forward with the class. Now *some* adults may call that a harmless accommodation… But a child… Read More