Private school vouchers in Florida can be used at schools teaching creation science.

[Orlandodem]

And Democrats in the Florida legislature, after years of being against vouchers, are starting to warm up to the idea of voucher expansion.

Please write the your Florida legislators and the Florida Democratic Party and tell them you don't want your tax dollars going to religious schools!


FROM THE ARTICLE....
At Treasure of Knowledge Christian Academy in the Meadow Woods area of South Orange, 70 of about 100 students in its k-8 program run by the El Shaddai Christian Church are on the scholarship.

The school uses the conservative Accelerated Christian Education curriculum, which “searches proofs of creation and the flood” in eighth grade science, analyzes Christian leaders and missionaries in sixth grade social studies and has Bible study at every grade level.


http://www.flascience.org/wp/?p=1169#comments

[monmouth]

1. Jeb Bush pushed for this and Rubio is ready to take up the push..Ugh...n/t

[RainDog]

2. honestly, let's just cede some land to the fundies and let them live in jesusland

and let them leave the rest of us alone.

[demmiblue]

3. Ask and you shall recieve (way back machine- 2006):

A FORMER marine who was raised by nuns and made a fortune selling pizza has embarked on a £230m plan to build the first town in America to be run according to strict Catholic principles.

Abortions, pornography and contraceptives will be banned in the new Florida town of Ave Maria, which has begun to take shape on former vegetable farms 90 miles northwest of Miami.

Tom Monaghan, the founder of the Domino’s Pizza chain, has stirred protests from civil rights activists by declaring that Ave Maria’s pharmacies will not be allowed to sell condoms or birth control pills. The town’s cable television network will carry no X-rated channels.

The town will be centred around a 100ft tall oratory and the first Catholic university to be built in America for 40 years. The university’s president, Nicholas J Healy, has said future students should “help rebuild the city of God” in a country suffering from “catastrophic cultural collapse”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article735109.ece


:crazy:

I don't know what is currently happening with this project... perhaps some DU Floridians are in the know.

[Dappleganger]

4. Nice, our local christian school just had a well-publicized murder.

Two male students shot one female student in the head after they took her from school to the park in a truck. So far no one is talking about the motivation and the school won't say a word except give condolences to the family. I sure as hell wouldn't want my tax dollars going towards a voucher for some school with NO public oversight in matters like this!