Monday, October 21, 2013

Vouchers don't do much for students

Nationwide, many schools participating in voucher programs infuse religion through their curriculum. Zack Kopplin, a student activist who favors rigorous science education, has found more than 300 voucher schools across the U.S. that teach the Biblical story of creation as science; some also instruct children that the world is just several thousand years old and use textbooks describing the Loch Ness Monster as a living dinosaur. Parents at one such school in Louisiana received a newsletter calling secular scientists "sinful men."

MORE: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/vouchers-dont-do-much-for-students-97909.html#ixzz2iN55StSD

See also...

'School Choice' Charade: Evidence Against Vouchers Continues To Mount
https://au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/school-choice-charade-evidence-against-vouchers-continues-to-mount