A variety of studies in recent years have revealed that private school voucher schemes don’t live up to their promises of giving families better options and improving public schools through competition. Now a new study reveals that private schools most available to the low-income families that vouchers are supposed to help tend not to offer academic benefits […]
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Help Celebrate TFN’s 14th Anniversary
It’s been a busy year for the Texas Freedom Network: battling far-right extremism on the State Board of Education, promoting responsible sexuality education for Texas teens, defeating private school voucher schemes and efforts to undermine stem cell research in the Legislature, defending religious freedom and separation of church and state. But all we’ve accomplished would […]
Olbermann vs. the Texas State Board of Ed
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann last night named the Texas State Board of Education the day’s “Worst Person in the World” for requiring that Texas public schools teach about the Bible. Check out a video clip here. (The clip begins with a commercial and two runners-up to the “Worst Person in the World.”) In truth, it’s a […]
Truly Vile
The religious right’s tactics seem to have become ever more extreme in the past year. Today an organization with the credible-sounding name of The Center For Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) used the Christian Newswire service to blast out a press release suggesting President Obama is a deranged murderer of “preborn children.” The e-mail plays off the […]
TFN Announces Speaker Series Events
Texas Freedom Network founder Cecile Richards, who currently serves as president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, will be featured at one of three TFN Faith and Freedom Speaker Series events beginning in September. Cecile’s San Antonio speech on September 14 will be followed on September 24 by an Austin event featuring nationally syndicated columnist […]
