We are not backing down. Students deserve a well-funded, honest public education.
Texas Freedom Network (TFN) fights for a robust and equitable public school system in which students have access to everything they need to learn and thrive — no matter who they are, what they believe, or where they come from.
More than 5.5 million students attend Texas public schools. Unfortunately, right-wing extremists relentlessly attack public education, most recently by siphoning public school dollars with a voucher scheme and attempting to force their single-minded political agenda and religious views into classrooms.
STEALING FROM STUDENTS
In the 2025 Legislative Session, lawmakers ignored the will of the people and passed a voucher scheme which will drain money from underfunded public schools to support tuition at unaccountable private schools. These institutions can, and do, discriminate against students based on ability, background, and identity.
BANNING BOOKS & CENSORING CURRICULA
Efforts to censor classroom lessons and ban books are rampant across Texas. Many of the most frequently banned books are about the experiences of people of color and LGBTQIA+ people. Extremists also want to bring conservative propaganda machine PragerU to schools.
Texas Freedom Network mobilizes at the Capitol, at the State Board of Education (SBOE), and in local school districts to ensure that the students in our public schools come first — not politicians’ personal views.
TFN fights for students at the State Board of Education (SBOE), which oversees public school curricula. We also conduct groundbreaking research into what is (and isn’t) taught on subjects like sex education, evolution, climate change, and religion.
In the Community
TFN’s Teach the Truth campaign opposes book-banning efforts in local public schools and libraries because students deserve a truthful education and access to books that reflect the diversity of our classrooms, state, and country.
Four Texans Fighting for Truth & Inclusion in Education The year 2026 will go down in infamy at the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE). It is the year that Texas may have become the first state in the nation to require a set list of readings – including Bible stories – in every grade…
Iniya traces the roots of her advocacy back to Pinkerton Elementary School in Coppell ISD, near Dallas. She credits teachers there with inspiring and encouraging her to find her interests and her voice. But the roots Pinkerton nourished grew from seeds planted at home. Her family inherited a belief in advocating for what is right.…
Sue Anderson has been making a difference in the realm of education for over 35 years, first as a special education teacher for pre-school and elementary school children, then later as a professor, helping to prepare pre-service teachers to enter the profession. Yet she had not been deeply involved in education advocacy until a few…
Through public school, homeschooling during the pandemic, and now online school, 14-year-old Austinite Abdurahman has had at least one constant in his education: parents who taught him to be an inquisitive and deep thinker. They are raising him to critically analyze information rather than accept it at face value. When he heard about the proposed…
When Kiyomi Beach decided to dive into advocacy, she asked herself how she could contribute in a way that allowed her to speak from her own lived and personal experience. She knew someone who was serving as a work group member providing feedback on a new social studies curriculum to content advisors appointed by members…
Religious Freedom Attacked in Rushed and Dishonest Revision of High School Social Studies Standards, Texas Students Denied Quality Education FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2026 Contact: Andrew Freeman, [email protected] AUSTIN, Texas – The State Board of Education today approved a radical rewrite of high school social studies standards following a series of final amendments. Texas Freedom…
Four Texans Fighting for Truth & Inclusion in Education The year 2026 will go down in infamy at the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE). It is the year that Texas may have become the first state in the nation to require a set list of readings – including Bible stories – in every grade…
Iniya traces the roots of her advocacy back to Pinkerton Elementary School in Coppell ISD, near Dallas. She credits teachers there with inspiring and encouraging her to find her interests and her voice. But the roots Pinkerton nourished grew from seeds planted at home. Her family inherited a belief in advocating for what is right.…
Sue Anderson has been making a difference in the realm of education for over 35 years, first as a special education teacher for pre-school and elementary school children, then later as a professor, helping to prepare pre-service teachers to enter the profession. Yet she had not been deeply involved in education advocacy until a few…
Through public school, homeschooling during the pandemic, and now online school, 14-year-old Austinite Abdurahman has had at least one constant in his education: parents who taught him to be an inquisitive and deep thinker. They are raising him to critically analyze information rather than accept it at face value. When he heard about the proposed…
When Kiyomi Beach decided to dive into advocacy, she asked herself how she could contribute in a way that allowed her to speak from her own lived and personal experience. She knew someone who was serving as a work group member providing feedback on a new social studies curriculum to content advisors appointed by members…
Religious Freedom Attacked in Rushed and Dishonest Revision of High School Social Studies Standards, Texas Students Denied Quality Education FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2026 Contact: Andrew Freeman, [email protected] AUSTIN, Texas – The State Board of Education today approved a radical rewrite of high school social studies standards following a series of final amendments. Texas Freedom…
