Education

With a public school enrollment of more than 5 million, Texas has an increasingly diverse public education system. Unfortunately, that public education system is also the target of politicians seeking to privatize our neighborhood public schools and push a culture-war agenda in the classroom.

To that end, the Texas Freedom Network – while continuing to fight private school voucher legislation at the Capitol – has conducted groundbreaking research into what is being taught in classrooms on subjects like sex education and religion.

Resources

NEW REPORT: Conspiracy of Silence: Sexuality Education in Public Schools (2016 report)
Broken Promises: Charter Schools in Texas (2000 report)
Broken Promises II (2001 report)
The State Board of Education: Dragging Texas Schools into the Culture Wars (2008 report)
Just Say Don’t Know: Sex Education in Texas Public Schools (2009 report)
Sex Education in Public Schools: Progress in the Lone Star State (2011 report)
Reading Writing & Religion: Teaching the Bible in Texas Public Schools (2006 report)
Reading, Writing & Religion II (2013 report)
Can This Class Be Saved? The ‘Hobby Lobby’ Public School Bible Curriculum (2014 report)

The Latest on Education

Texas School Prayer Primer

December 11, 2001 by TFN Insider

Read the Report: Prayer in Public Schools – Religious Freedom in Texas: Statements of Faith, Statutes & Case Law (PDF)… Read More

Our Kids at Risk: A Statistical Portrait of Texas Children in Crisis

December 11, 2000 by TFN Insider

A review of the risks to children in this state, highlighting the hypocrisy of far right advocates who call themselves pro-family, but promote an agenda that is anti-child in the extreme. The second in a two-part report examing the failures of the Texas charter school system. The Texas Freedom Network provides readers with a concise, complete overview of the laws regarding prayer in public schools.

Read the Review: Our Kids at Risk: A Statistical Portrait of Texas Children in Crisis (PDF)… Read More