Dolly Parton believed every child deserved a book. 📚✨ Not every Christian child.Not every child whose parents believed what she believed.Not every child who could afford one. EVERY child. 💗 ✨Dolly was a woman of deep faith who understood something profoundly important about education: helping children learn does not require making them share your religion.… Read More

🚩WE CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH: If you thought your school board voted LifeWise down — check again. If you thought LifeWise tried your district and failed — check again. If you looked last year and thought there wasn’t much interest — CHECK AGAIN. Please. For the love of public education, GO LOOK AT THE MAP.… Read More

🚩DELAWARE: DELAWARE FAMILY POLICY COUNCIL Delaware Family Policy Council is the official Delaware ally of Family Policy Alliance. Its own website says it is building a statewide network of people “strategically placed” in their spheres of influence — and it specifically names school administrators, school board members, and educators alongside pastors, legislators, and local officials.… Read More

We’ve been sitting on this one for a little while. Starting tomorrow, CBS Texas is airing a three-part series on LifeWise Academy — Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 10 PM. SEA co-founder Zach Parrish was interviewed for the series and will be featured in parts two and three. Over the course of their reporting, we… Read More

🚨 CONNECTICUT HAS FAMILY INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT. Different state. Different name. SAME national policy network. Family Institute of Connecticut (FIC) is officially listed by Family Policy Alliance as its Connecticut state ally. And when it comes to public education, FIC is VERY active. 👉 School boards: In 2025, FIC promoted a School Board Academy specifically… Read More

Colorado is where the bigger picture comes into focus. 🔎 🚨Family Policy Alliance is not simply trying to influence public education. They are helping build the infrastructure to replace secular public education. From Colorado Springs, Family Policy Alliance coordinates a national network of state organizations, trains Christian legislators, trains school board members and candidates, supplies… Read More

We hear this constantly: “Have you contacted the ACLU? Americans United? FFRF?” Yes. We have contacted all of them. Repeatedly. We’ve been in internal meetings.We’ve spoken at their conferences.We’ve supplied data, documentation, and firsthand accounts from families.We’ve asked them to help sound the alarm — while fully understanding that not every case can or should… Read More

Here’s something that gets deliberately confused FAR too often: 👉 Keeping public schools secular does NOT mean keeping religious students silent. Students do not surrender their beliefs when they walk through the school doors.They can pray.They can talk about their faith.They can read religious texts.They can participate in religious clubs under the same rules as… Read More

🚨HIS MOTHER SAID NO.WHY WAS THAT NOT ENOUGH? At Westfield’s back-to-school event, a Turning Point USA/Club America booth offered a bracelet to an 8-year-old child.His mother said no and pulled him away. 👉That should have been the end of it. Instead, Sophia Hunt — the 17-year-old president of the Westfield High School chapter — CONTINUED… Read More

🚨 “YOU’RE GOING TO HELL FOR NOT BEING IN LIFEWISE.” 👆A third grader said that to a classmate at her public school. -Her teacher documented it.-The child admitted saying it. She served detention for it. 😔-And the mother of the child who SAID IT contacted us. Her daughter was already Christian. She already went to… Read More

🧠 FUN FACT FRIDAY: Why Ohio? Ever wonder why Ohio became ground zero for LifeWise Academy? LifeWise’s roots trace back to Van Wert, Ohio. In 2012, a ministry called Cross Over the Hill began providing released-time Bible education to public school students in Van Wert. LifeWise says that program eventually inspired Joel Penton — a… Read More

You call this “RESPECT”? LifeWise gives students this scenario: “My teacher says I should stop talking about God at school because it makes other students uncomfortable.” 🚩And the “correct” response is to keep doing it. The same lesson tells kids that when their parents say church is a waste of time and they should stay… Read More

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