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19-year-old student Zack Kopplin<\/a> is awesome! I hadn’t realized it, but he’s the guy behind the research into creationist voucher schools I posted about yesterday<\/a>. Here’s an article he wrote on the subject: Creationism spreading in schools, thanks to voucher<\/a>s<\/p>\n

So far, I have documented 310 schools, in nine states and the District of Columbia that are teaching creationism, and receiving tens of millions of dollars in public money through school voucher programs.<\/p>\n

There is no doubt that there are hundreds more creationist voucher schools that have yet to be identified. The more than 300 schools I have already found are those that have publicly stated on their websites that they teach creationism or use creationist curricula.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

19-year-old student Zack Kopplin is awesome! I hadn’t realized it, but he’s the guy behind the research into creationist voucher schools I posted about yesterday. Here’s an article he wrote on the subject: Creationism spreading in schools, thanks to vouchers … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-t7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2927,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2927","url_meta":{"origin":1805,"position":0},"title":"Another barrel of rotten apples","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Orlando Sentinel is publishing a three part series about Florida private schools raking in voucher money from the state despite some incredibly ugly problems at those schools. The first part ran today:\u00c2\u00a0Schools Without Rules: An Orlando Sentinel Investigation (Florida private schools rake in nearly $1 billion in state scholarships\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antiscience nonsense"","block_context":{"text":"Antiscience nonsense","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=21"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1822,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1822","url_meta":{"origin":1805,"position":1},"title":"Orlando Sentinel takes notice","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Orlando Sentinel's School Zone blog took notice of the voucher-accepting-private-schools-that-teach-creationism mess that I posted about before. 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