Did you know that students attending private schools in Texas today face discrimination like African-American students did during the era of racial segregation? Sen. Dan Patrick, the Republican chairman of the Texas Senate Education Committee, seems to think so. Sen. Patrick was speaking at Tuesday’s Education Committee hearing on Senate Bill 573, a measure that […]
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A Minister Gets Sermon on Morality from Legislative Staffers
TFN Insider is pleased to present this guest post from Rev. Beth Ellen Cooper of Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Church. Rev. Cooper participated in TFN’s clergy gathering earlier this week in support of access to birth control and state funding for family planning. She blogs regularly for the Houston Chronicle at Keep the Faith. Process Matters […]
Distortions and Bullying Tactics Take Center Stage at Texas Senate Hearing on Sex Education
Today we saw a big reason why sex education is so awful in Texas, a state with one of the highest teen birth rates in the nation. Polling shows that 84 percent of registered voters in Texas want high school sex education classes to teach about birth control along with the importance of abstinence. But […]
Texas Clergy Support Broad Access to Birth Control, State Funding for Family Planning
We already told you about our new statewide poll showing that a large majority of registered voters in Texas support broad access to birth control. Today clergy from around the state met at the Texas Capitol to call on lawmakers to ensure that all women, regardless of income, have access to family planning services. We […]
Texas Senate Education Committee to Take Up Pro-Vouchers, Anti-Sex Ed Bills on Tuesday
The Texas Freedom Network will be focused Tuesday on two bills being heard by the Senate Education Committee: one that would create an expensive private school voucher program and another that could effectively end sex education in much of the state. Senate Bill 115 by state Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, would create a voucher […]
