Schools and Education Ranked Top Priority for Voters FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 15, 2026 AUSTIN, Texas – Texas education advocacy organizations today released the following findings from a recent survey of Texas voters with household incomes under $250,000: The survey found that Texas voters rank schools and education as a top priority and are much more likely […]
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Five Ways Education Vouchers are Already Harming Texans
By Andrew Freeman Governor Abbott and his far-right cronies pushed for vouchers for more than a decade. It took millions of dollars, countless special sessions, and ousting the rural Republicans who opposed him to make it happen, but it happened. All for the benefit of Abbott’s billionaire donor elites. TFN and countless others sounded the […]
The Legal Chat: Constitutional Law Professor Breaks Down Texas’ Ten Commandments in Schools
It’s happening in real time. The Ten Commandments in schools is one of several legal challenges over religion that’s reshaping the national conversation regarding separation of church and state. Following a major court decision on SB 10, which requires public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, two lawyers sit down to discuss the debate. […]
Book Ban Backlash? Texas School Board Extremists Continue to Lose Key Races Across the State
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 […]
SBOE Calls Separation of Church and State Communist. Is it?
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 […]
