📢 LifeWise is promoting a new study claiming its Bible program produces “academic gains exceeding 30%” and “nearly 50% lower absenteeism.” Those are enormous claims. But even on an initial review, there are serious reasons not to accept them at face value. 🤨The new report was prepared by Thomas P. Miller & Associates (TPMA), an… Read More

🚨Arkansas spent more than $309 million in PUBLIC money on its private-school voucher program during the 2025–26 school year. And the schools collecting the most?Nine of the top ten voucher recipients are Christian schools. Together, those ten private schools received more than $61.4 million—nearly one out of every five dollars spent through the entire program.… Read More

This is the reality of LifeWise. “They are in our school district in Ohio, and almost the entire class leaves to go—except my daughter and one other boy. They stay behind and do work while the other children return with fidgets and toys. It’s ridiculous.” 🚨This is what “optional” looks like to the children left… Read More

This is not solidarity. It’s content. Yesterday, Friendly Atheist posted a graphic declaring that religious instruction does not belong in the public school day. Great. We’ve been saying that for years. But there was no information. No explanation of what LifeWise is doing inside public school districts. No resources for affected parents. No mention of… Read More

🚨 Ohio has CCV. Texas has Texas Values. Your state may have its own version. 👀 In 2025, we reported on the Center for Christian Virtue’s support for LifeWise Academy and its work to expand religious instruction during Ohio’s public-school day. 🚨But LifeWise is only one piece of what CCV is building. CCV is Ohio’s… Read More

🍎Public school kids are going without.📓Teachers are buying classroom supplies out of their own pockets. ✏️ Families are being asked to donate everything from pencils to tissues. 💔Schools are cutting programs, losing teachers, delaying repairs, and struggling to meet students’ basic needs. Meanwhile, LifeWise brought in $39 million in a SINGLE year. That money is… Read More

🚨 Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s church is connected to LifeWise Academy. Beckwith serves as a pastor at Life Church in Noblesville, which is identified on SEA’s map as a hosting location or sponsoring church for the local LifeWise effort. In 2023, Beckwith and Life Church also hosted a meeting to help bring LifeWise into… Read More

🚨 A PUBLIC FACILITY WAS DONATED TO LIFEWISE ACADEMY. 🚨 Last year, we obtained a lease between the Village of Dresden, Ohio, and LifeWise Academy that deserves another look. This was not an occasional meeting-room reservation. It was a formal lease for approximately 550 square feet inside the publicly owned Dresden Swim Center.According to the… Read More

Katy Faust has built a national organization around the claim that other people’s families are driven by adult desires, unresolved wounds, and disregard for children. Meanwhile, her own public ideology is rooted in her parents’ divorce, her mother’s relationship with a woman, and her interpretation of what that childhood meant. She accuses LGBTQ parents of… Read More

🚨 Nearly one in three Toledo children lives in poverty, giving the city one of the highest child poverty rates in the nation. And LifeWise Academy Toledo is fundraising $1,600 for logos and decals on a bus—signing the appeal: “The kids of TPS thank you!” No. 😡 Toledo Public Schools’ children did not ask anyone… Read More

🚨 Never heard of “Them Before Us”? That’s cause you’re supposed to see the billboard—not the machinery behind it. 👀 Have A Gay Day recently drew attention to this billboard in Lima, Ohio. (It’s been spotted in Alabama too) Its weird, hateful, and divisive message is brought to you by Them Before Us—which presents itself… Read More

This is the LifeWise Summit. Today. “Children are cultural targets.” Not children to protect.Not minds to educate.Targets to capture. Their strategy is explicit: gain access to children, impose one religious worldview, teach that everyone outside it is more broken, immoral, depressed, divorced or criminal- and use those children to win a culture war. Public schools… Read More

🚨 We first published this document more than TWO YEARS ago. It deserves another look. LifeWise titled it: “BOOSTING ENROLLMENT.” And it lays out, in detail, how local programs should grow participation. Among the strategies: — Send students back to school with “Invite a Friend” flyers.— Offer treats or rewards for bringing a friend.— Give… Read More

🚨 What if your “choice” comes with a religion? Texas is now giving eligible families an average of $10,500 in public money to pay for private school. A new Houston Chronicle analysis identified 56 Houston-area private schools with tuition below roughly the value of that voucher. 👉Only one of those schools is secular.👈 The affordable… Read More

🚨 OHIO – Authorities are asking the public for information about an Ohio man accused of child sexual abuse material offenses—including whether he attempted to gain access to children through local youth groups. Phillip VanScoy, 32, of La Rue, has been indicted on multiple felony charges involving the alleged reproduction of child sexual abuse material… Read More