By Stephen Howsley Despite THSC’s disappointments with the results of the 2019 legislative session, some legislators went all out in their defense of Texas families. These legislators fought for Texas families and homeschoolers during the [...]
The UIL Equal Access Bill in Texas (aka the Tim Tebow bill), would give homeschoolers access to University Interscholastic League (UIL) activities (band, orchestra, speech, sports, etc) through the local school. Some people may be [...]
Every legislative session, a bill is filed to make it easier for estranged in-laws to obtain access to and possession of a parent’s children over the parent’s objections. The sentiment promoted to justify this bill [...]
January 30, 2019 Last year, I wrote a response to a call by an out-of-state group for stricter regulation of homeschooling in Texas. This group sought to capitalize on a horrible situation involving a homeschool [...]
March 27, 2019 https://youtu.be/STO-4IoUxXg Texas Governor Greg Abbott just appointed a new justice to the Texas Supreme Court. Justice Brett Busby is a conservative with a clear and constitutional understanding of the God-given right [...]
May 1, 2019 I recently wrote about a bill that would allow families to lose their children without any accusations of abuse or neglect. Under current Texas law, the Grandparent’s Access Statute has been responsible [...]
May 13, 2019 If this blog title invokes a sense of unease, it should. To be clear, this is not an apocalyptic message about why parents should lie awake at night for fear they may [...]
May 29, 2019 The second week of May was the week that Texas homeschoolers killed a bill that would have been devastating to the families of Texas. For the third consecutive legislative session, the organization [...]
June 12, 2019 We recently gave a presentation on the history of the legal battle for homeschool freedom in Texas and the ongoing political battle to protect and expand that freedom. We also shared a [...]
July 10, 2018 I came across an article in The Federalist which clearly outlines the danger that we’ve been warning about for months. An organization is running a national campaign to use cases of abuse [...]
