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.
The Throwdown Fund will have the largest challenge fund in TFNEF’s history FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 21, 2026 CONTACT:Andrew Freeman, 512-746-8404, [email protected] AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Freedom Network Education Fund (TFNEF) today announced the launch of the Throwdown Fund, an initiative to raise $500,000 to organize, mobilize, and empower Texans advocating for strong public schools, religious freedom,…
School Districts like Lake Travis and Mansfield have become known as ground zero for book bans and other Christian Nationalist policies in recent years, but Texans have said enough is enough. In the May 2026 elections, several far-right incumbents got the boot as Democratic-backed challengers secured victories across the state. Not just inside Lake Travis…
As the far right continues to force their own beliefs into the classroom, from the State Board of Education to the Texas Legislature, we’re hearing one anti-American claim again and again: the separation of church and state doesn’t exist. Christian Nationalists aren’t just ignoring our founding fathers, they’re going through ridiculous lengths to question our…
By Shan Schaffer, Texas Freedom Network’s Just Texas Program Manager According to the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), which decides the curriculum for public education, schools aren’t required to teach sex ed, and when they do, it doesn’t have to be inclusive or medically accurate. I’m Shan, TFN’s Just Texas program manager. I’m here…
AUSTIN, Texas – Several members of the State Board of Education are calling for an investigation after it was discovered one of the content advisors in charge of revisions to the K-12 social studies curriculum didn’t disclose a $70,000 gift from a far right think tank.
The Throwdown Fund will have the largest challenge fund in TFNEF’s history FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 21, 2026 CONTACT:Andrew Freeman, 512-746-8404, [email protected] AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Freedom Network Education Fund (TFNEF) today announced the launch of the Throwdown Fund, an initiative to raise $500,000 to organize, mobilize, and empower Texans advocating for strong public schools, religious freedom,…
School Districts like Lake Travis and Mansfield have become known as ground zero for book bans and other Christian Nationalist policies in recent years, but Texans have said enough is enough. In the May 2026 elections, several far-right incumbents got the boot as Democratic-backed challengers secured victories across the state. Not just inside Lake Travis…
As the far right continues to force their own beliefs into the classroom, from the State Board of Education to the Texas Legislature, we’re hearing one anti-American claim again and again: the separation of church and state doesn’t exist. Christian Nationalists aren’t just ignoring our founding fathers, they’re going through ridiculous lengths to question our…
By Shan Schaffer, Texas Freedom Network’s Just Texas Program Manager According to the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), which decides the curriculum for public education, schools aren’t required to teach sex ed, and when they do, it doesn’t have to be inclusive or medically accurate. I’m Shan, TFN’s Just Texas program manager. I’m here…
AUSTIN, Texas – Several members of the State Board of Education are calling for an investigation after it was discovered one of the content advisors in charge of revisions to the K-12 social studies curriculum didn’t disclose a $70,000 gift from a far right think tank.
