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14 Wacky "Facts" Kids Will Learn in Louisiana's Voucher Schools
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Aug 19, 2012 12:37pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Deanna Pan |
| News Date | Tuesday, August 7, 2012 11:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Thanks to a new law privatizing public education in Louisiana, Bible-based curriculum can now indoctrinate young, pliant minds with the good news of the Lord—all on the state taxpayers' dime.
Under Gov. Bobby Jindal's voucher program, considered the most sweeping in the country, Louisiana is poised to spend tens of millions of dollars to help poor and middle-class students from the state's notoriously terrible public schools receive a private education. While the governor's plan sounds great in the glittery parlance of the state's PR machine, the program is rife with accountability problems that actually haven't been solved by the new standards the Louisiana Department of Education adopted two weeks ago.
For one, of the 119 (mostly Christian) participating schools, Zack Kopplin, a gutsy college sophomore who's taken to Change.org to stonewall the program, has identified at least 19 that teach or champion creationist nonscience and will rake in nearly $4 million in public funding from the initial round of voucher designations. |
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