When the Senate Committee on Education met to hear HB 890 today, an addition had been made that was not in previous versions stating that the bill would prohibit “instruction, guidance, activities, or programming regarding sexual orientation or gender identity” for students at every grade level. […]
Education
Texas has an increasingly diverse public education system with a public school enrollment of more than 5 million. Unfortunately, that public education system is also the target of right-wing extremists seeking to privatize our neighborhood public schools and push a culture-war agenda in the classroom.
To that end, Texas Freedom Network tirelessly fights for Texas public school students at the Capitol — opposing private school voucher legislation, sticking up for students’ freedoms, advocating for truthful, censorship-free lessons and textbooks, and more. We’ve also conducted groundbreaking research into what is taught in classrooms on subjects like sex education and religion.
Resources
- Teach the Truth: Texans United Against Censorship in Education
- Can This Class Be Saved? The ‘Hobby Lobby’ Public School Bible Curriculum (2014 report)
- Reading, Writing & Religion II (2013 report)
- Sex Education in Public Schools: Progress in the Lone Star State (2011 report)
- Just Say Don’t Know: Sex Education in Texas Public Schools (2009 report)
- The State Board of Education: Dragging Texas Schools into the Culture Wars (2008 report)
- Reading Writing & Religion: Teaching the Bible in Texas Public Schools (2006 report)
- Broken Promises II (2001 report)
- Broken Promises: Charter Schools in Texas (2000 report)
Students Need Trained Counselors, Not Chaplains
By Elizabeth Ledford (she/her), MS, LPC. As a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas, I’m speaking out against HB 3614, which would let schools replace counselors with chaplains. […]
Proposed Legislation Would Blur Line of Separation of Church and State in Texas Schools
The Texas State House Committee on Public Education today voted House Bill 3614 out during a formal meeting. The bill would allow school districts to hire chaplains instead of professional school counselors to perform school counseling duties. […]
Texas Freedom Network Rebukes Use of Vouchers to Divert Funding From Public School Students
The Texas State House Committee on Public Education yesterday held hearings for a series of bills that would use vouchers to divert tax dollars from neighborhood students in public schools to instead subsidize religious schools and exclusive private schools. […]
The Far-Right’s Obsession with Stealing from Students Through Vouchers
Gov. Abbott and his followers are obsessed with vouchers. This obsession has one indisputable result: These lawmakers are stealing from students—stealing the public funds earmarked just for them, stealing their access to free, quality education, and stealing their freedom to learn. […]
