State Representative Terra Costa Howard, the sponsor the anti-homeschooling bill (HB 2827), has introduced an amendment which will be heard in committee this Wednesday at the Capitol. Your calls, emails and witness slips against this effort to diminish homeschool freedoms in Illinois. Speak up for parental rights!

The battle continues and your participation is making a difference!

Government schools across Texas are protecting child rapists and abusers, even allowing them to be legally shifted around to other schools to abuse more children, according to official documents and data compiled by researchers. It is happening in Illinois too... consider the test alarming reports about the sexual assaults on students in Chicago Public Schools.

President Trump wants to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. Sounds outrageous to some. This move aligns with his broader agenda to reduce federal involvement in local matters.

Get rid of DEI. Yes! There are only two genders, male and female. Amen. Shut down the Department of Education. Let’s get started. Let’s get the government to support Christian schools and homeschooling. Hmm, is this something we should be advocating for?

As of this week, 15 Illinois House members are willing to sign onto the 45-page legislation and support an unprecedented attack on parental rights. HB 2827 would diminish homeschool freedoms in the state.

Education is vitally important. It produces a variety of societal and economic benefits, including cognitive skills, civic engagement, career opportunities, communication skills, social mobility, and many more.

Over the years, we have loved being able to tell people that Illinois was among the best states with homeschooling freedoms. That is thanks, in part to a 1950 case (People v. Levisen) in which the Illinois Supreme Court determined that the term "private school" included instruction given to a child at home, as long as the instruction was adequate.

Is there such a thing as healthy kids' entertainment? Sherwood Kids has accomplished this very thing. They observed the kids’ entertainment industry and found that it was littered with overstimulating shows and stories that failed to spark curiosity or true imagination. So they decided to change that.

Did you know that the Biden Administration aggressively fought to keep obscene materials in school libraries against the efforts of parents to remove them? I didn’t. I had no idea and I’ve tried to keep up on these issues.

President Trump recently signed an executive order that prohibits federal funding from going to K-12 public schools teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) or gender issues.

The U.S. Department of Education was officially established on May 4, 1980, in the final days of the Carter administration. Conservatives have talked about putting an end to this department since the time of President Ronald Reagan.

I recently reviewed and then wrote a follow-up to a talk by Jay Seegert titled "How To College-Proof Your Faith." If you're entering college soon or you know someone who is, take an hour out of your day to glean from Jay's wisdom. He'll help you find core disagreements between you and the world, offer tips for conversations with hostile unbelievers, and even give some street wisdom specifically for the college environment.

In this eye-opening episode of WISE and Otherwise, Dalena Wallace sits down with Alex Newman, an international journalist, author, and education expert, to uncover the alarming truths behind the public education system. Are public schools truly serving the needs of children, or is there a hidden agenda at play?

If you're sending a kid off to college soon, have them watch this video. And if you're a kid heading off to college soon, listen to your parents when they tell you to. In a talk lasting just over an hour, Jay Seegert from The Starting Point Project presents a comprehensive guide to defending your faith in college, and he teaches from his own experiences as he faced opposition back when he was in school. It's well worth a listen.