NORTH CAROLINA 🚨 PUBLIC SCHOOLS DESERVE ACCURATE REPORTING — NOT LIFEWISE TALKING POINTS. Albemarle Observer has now published multiple glowing stories about LifeWise Academy. The problem isn’t simply that they’re favorable. 👉The coverage gets important facts wrong, repeats LifeWise-promoted claims with little scrutiny, and openly cheers supporters while insulting a critic. 😬 ❌ CLAIM: North… Read More

🚨 YOUR SCHOOL BOARD CAN SAY NO — AND YOUR STATE CAN STILL TAKE THAT DECISION AWAY. That is exactly what is happening with Released Time Religious Instruction (RTRI) in states across the country. For years, many communities treated programs like LifeWise as a local decision. School boards could debate it, hear from parents and… Read More

Use our RTRI State Law & Lobbying Map to check your state’s current law:https://seculareducationassociation.org/rtri-state-laws/ If you’re here because your school district already voted LifeWise — or Released Time Religious Instruction (RTRI) — down, please check your state law again. 🚨A local school board’s “no” is not necessarily the end of the story. If your district… Read More

🚨 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