Bobby Jindal continues to offer up reasons why he should never, ever be elected to anything ever again:
Louisiana is about to spend almost twelve million dollars to fund the
teaching of creationism, charges Zack Kopplin, famous for organizing the
effort to repeal the so-called Louisiana Science Education Act. In
Kopplin's sights now is a controversial new voucher program in the state
that uses public school funds to pay for tuition and certain fees at
private schools for students who attend low-performing public schools
and whose family income is below 250% of the federal poverty level. When
the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education considered a set of
accountability guidelines for such private schools at its July 24, 2012,
meeting, Kopplin testified that of the roughly 6600 spaces available
for students under the program, 1350 will be filled, as the Lafayette Independent Weekly (July 26, 2012) described it, "at private Christian schools that teach creationism and peg evolution as 'false science.'”
There's more, but don't bother to read the link if you're depressed about the state of science education in the US. It won't help.
(Also on WTTFTG)
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