Posted in our private group – “Lifewise is starting in my kids’ school this month and they are beginning with only 4th graders. They were at our elementary trunk or treat tonight and had special candy for the 4th graders only. I didn’t get to see them but I’m assuming they including an invitation to… Read More

🚨ARKANSAS 🚨 Public-Education Alert: Arkansas Voucher System Under Fire 🚨 Today the Little Rock School District (LRSD) has asked a federal court for permission to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s new voucher program, the Educational Freedom Account (EFA) program. Why it matters: • LRSD argues that the voucher program diverts… Read More

📣 OHIO When “student-led” prayer isn’t really student-led. After the Lakota East/West game, a large on-field prayer circle was publicly celebrated on Facebook — and when a community member questioned it, a coach jumped in to defend his own participation. Lakota Local SchoolsLakota WestLakota East High SchoolWCPO 9 Enquirer – Cincinnati and Kentucky Let’s be… Read More

🚨OHIO🚨 ⚠️ Ohio’s “School Chaplain” Bill Crosses the Line ⚠️ Ohio lawmakers are trying to bring chaplains into public schools. House Bill 240 — backed by 10 Republican legislators — would let districts hire or accept volunteer “chaplains” to counsel and mentor students.These chaplains would not be licensed by the state board of education. They… Read More

🚨 Colorado Just Crossed a Line 🚨 A “public Christian school” has quietly opened in southern Colorado — Riverstone Academy, authorized by a BOCES (a cooperative of school districts) and already calling itself “Colorado’s first Christian public school.” Let’s be clear:Public schools cannot be religious. Period.The Colorado Constitution explicitly requires that public education be nonsectarian… Read More

Let’s stop pretending “released time” is about freedom. When only one faith gets the funding, the publicity, and the privilege — that’s not freedom. That’s favoritism, plain and simple. 🚫 #KeepSchoolsSecular #SeparationOfChurchAndState #LifeWise #RTRI #PublicSchools View original post on Facebook Read More

We’ve allllll seen it by now: LifeWise’s “three-part formula” — off school property, privately funded, and parent-permitted. We’ve heard it repeated ad nauseam by LifeWise, their promoters, supporters, their shoddy legal team, First Liberty Institute, school districts, reporters—the whole media echo chamber. 📣 By now, it’s probably been thrown in your face a couple dozen… Read More

🚨 Another “Faith-Based” Flyer Makes Its Way Into Public Schools Yesterday, a parent in Findlay, Ohio shared this brochure that her 4th grader brought home from school — promoting an American Heritage Girls troop. At first glance, it might look like an ordinary scouting program. But a closer read tells a different story. Phrases like… Read More

🚨 West Virginia, Hampshire County — heads up. This isn’t just a “poll.”It’s a test balloon for whether the community will accept pulling kids out of class for religious instruction under the banner of “character education.” Let’s be clear:Public schools already teach character — through evidence-based social-emotional learning, civic engagement, and inclusive community values.What they… Read More

😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 Shared in our national public group – Join the conversation here ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AXwzEvrrN/?mibextid= Secular Education Association View original post on Facebook Read More

🚨 BREAKING: Ohio quietly expands school-day religious release time—again. Governor DeWine just signed House Bill 57, a bill originally written to let schools keep overdose-reversal medication on hand. But tucked inside is a last-minute Senate amendment expanding Released Time Religious Instruction (RTRI)—the same loophole that has fueled LifeWise Academy’s explosive growth across Ohio. Under the… Read More

Released Time Religious Instruction is finally getting the national attention it deserves. The Secular Education Association (SEA) is proud that our years of parent-led research, videos, and documentation helped inform this latest coverage from Americans United. The resources AU cited come directly from families, educators, and advocates in our network who’ve been doing this work… Read More

🧡BIG NEWS: SEA State Chapters Are Live!🧡 Our movement just leveled up. Secular Education Association is officially rolling out state-based SEA groups — local chapters where parents, educators, and allies can connect, organize, and protect secular education right where they live. 🌎 Each state group is a space to:✅ Track your state’s laws and school… Read More

Here we go again. ANOTHER predator closely tied to LifeWise Academy that only community concern has uncovered.Fishers, Indiana An anonymous tip led the Secular Education Association (SEA)to review publicly available records about LifeWise Academy’s Hamilton Southeastern Schools program. Those records and news reports show that the listed local director, Larry Renihan—a minister at Cyntheanne Christian… Read More

“Because ordinary people refusing to bow is how democracy works” Keep showing up, keep being loud, keep educating yourselves. #fightback #seculareducationassociation #ordinarypeople #democracy #parents #secularism #SeparationOfChurchAndState View original post on Facebook Read More