{"id":1169,"date":"2010-03-04T07:54:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T11:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2010-03-04T07:54:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T11:54:57","slug":"should-state-money-support-bad-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Should state money support bad science?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Orlando Sentinel article<\/a> offers quite a bit of food for thought when it comes to state-financed tuition vouchers. This money is used to give parents the choice of sending their kids to public school or a private school. This leads to a very good question: is education quality the same? These private schools have their own sets of standards apart from the state’s. For instance:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

State Education Commissioner Eric Smith is adamant about stricter standards for public schools, among them the tougher science curriculum approved by the state Board of Education two years ago requiring evolution to be taught. At the same time, Smith and lawmakers support the voucher program for private schools, although their curriculum often varies widely from state standards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmmmmm … something doesn’t seem quite right here to me. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Orlando Sentinel article offers quite a bit of food for thought when it comes to state-financed tuition vouchers. This money is used to give parents the choice of sending their kids to public school or a private school. 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