What’s one way you can Stand Up for Science in Texas? Throw a party! Host a house party and screen an award-winning documentary, Kansas vs. Darwin, which chronicles creationist efforts to undermine what schoolchildren learn about evolution in their science classrooms. Kansas vs. Darwin looks specifically at what happened when religious extremists took control of […]
Today is the deadline to sponsor the Texas Freedom Network’s 13th Annual Celebration. All of the work we do — from battling religious extremists on the State Board of Education to defending religious freedom, civil liberties and public education in the Legislature — depends on the support we get from people who share these mainstream […]
This Saturday (August 16) Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain will speak at Rev. Rick Warren’s Saddleback Civil Forum. The presidential contenders will be interviewed separately by Warren on issues such as AIDS, poverty and social justice. As we noted earlier, this appearance by political candidates with an evangelical Christian leader is unique in that […]
As we learn more about recipients of new grants under the state’s Dropout Recovery Pilot Program, it’s becoming clearer that one key political winner is James Leininger. Leininger, a San Antonio physician and businessman, is the state’s biggest financial backer of private school voucher schemes and a major donor to Gov. Rick Perry’s election campaigns. On Monday […]
Texas Freedom Network has been taking fire from religious extremists on the State Board of Education for our stand on public school Bible classes. We have been very critical of the state board’s failure to adopt clear, specific curriculum standards to guide public schools in creating worthwhile, legal courses that don’t end up in court. In pieces published […]
