TEXAS🚨 When “parents’ rights” bills become kids’ losses 🚨 Texas’ new Senate Bill 12 is already closing down student-run LGBTQ clubs, banning school-sponsored GSAs, and even blocking teachers from using students’ affirmed names and pronouns.Districts are scrambling to interpret the law; the result is confusion, fear, and the loss of one of the only safe… Read More

What people are saying: Facebook User: I believe this is 100% true Facebook User: And a money making machine. Always about the money with this regime. Facebook User: I tried to find the connection to Christian Zionism, but couldn’t. Has anyone? Nonetheless, vote for School Board Candidates that have moral clarity & treat ALL children… Read More

📣 ARKANSAS- Zoom Incident: Student Speech vs. School Neutrality You may have seen the headlines about Zion Ramos, a junior at Arkansas Connections Academy, who says he was muted and removed from a virtual “social time” session while sharing his Christian faith. ➡️ First Liberty Institute, a religious-liberty law group, says the school violated his… Read More

🚨UPDATE: Faith Life Church & the Keesees 🚨 Back in February, we shared information about the serious allegations and the growing investigation involving Faith Life Church in New Albany — the church led by Gary and Drenda Keesee, who are also well-known financial and ideological supporters of LifeWise Academy. This week, NBC4 reported that a… Read More

SEA was honored to join a breakout session at Interfaith Alliance’s Religious Freedom in Public Schools Summit. We were grateful to share the space with Anita Davis, Associate Director of Kentucky Citizens for Democracy, who’s been organizing powerfully in her community. In our session, we covered: what Released-Time Religious Instruction (RTRI) is, how state laws… Read More

SEA’s focus has always been keeping the public-school day secular, inclusive, and evidence-based. That means we don’t just watch Released-Time programs like LifeWise—we also track bills that try to slip ideological or religiously driven content into classrooms under the banner of “science” or “character.” Ohio’s “Baby Olivia Act” is a clear example: it would require… Read More

🚨 STATEMENT ON HB 57 🚨 What began as a bipartisan, life-saving bill to let schools carry overdose-reversal medication was hijacked in the Ohio Senate by lawmakers who quietly slipped in a gift to released-time religious programs. Instead of debating it in the open, they buried an amendment that lets districts expand how much class… Read More

🤝 Stronger Together, Smarter Together 🤝 At SEA, we’re thrilled to see so many parents, educators, and advocates raising awareness about protecting public schools. That momentum is exactly what we hoped to spark. But awareness is most powerful when it’s accurate and when we work together.SEA has spent years building research, contacts, and resources to… Read More

🚨 Update on LifeWise’s court filing:LifeWise is telling the Ohio Supreme Court that—because it’s a religious organization—it has a “clear legal right to finality” over its employment decisions, free from review by a “secular tribunal.” It also accuses the former employee of “continuous, unrepentant” misconduct under its handbook. 🔎 In plain terms:LifeWise is telling the… Read More

🚨 Indiana — Muncie Area 🚨 Tomorrow (Thu, Oct 2) from 6–8 PM, join the Secular Education Association at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Muncie for “Protecting Public Schools from Religious Influence.” We’ll cover: • LifeWise and other school-day religious programs • How we got here (the history + the players) • What these efforts… Read More

🚨OHIO🚨 ACTION ALERT: HB 57 Expands Religious Released-Time During the Public School Day 🚨 Ohio lawmakers just passed Sub. HB 57 — a bill that rewrites the state’s released-time statute to let districts excuse students for much more of the school day to attend off-campus religious programs such as LifeWise Academy. ⚠️ How it passed:… Read More

🚨 PARENTS: WATCH FOR “MAGIC SHOW” PITCHES IN SCHOOLS 🚨 This week at Harmon Middle School in Pickerington Ohio- parents reported that an “illusion show” was brought into a public-school assembly as a program about bullying and peer pressure.That part seemed harmless — until every child went home with a free family ticket to a… Read More

🚨 “First bribe of the year 🤗” — straight from an Ohio specials teacher. This is how LifeWise kicks off the school year: cookies shaped like their red bus, with a cheerful note hoping the program will continue to be a “blessing” to the staff. Let’s be clear: public-school teachers don’t need sweets from a… Read More

🚨 BREAKING: Ohio’s HB 486 — the “Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act” — is a Christian-nationalist push to rewrite history inside public classrooms. Ohio lawmakers just introduced HB 486, a bill that would require public schools to teach a one-sided, “positive” history of Christianity in America — while ignoring the harm done in Christianity’s name,… Read More

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