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Written by Don Byrd   
Thursday, 26 July 2012

A report from the Louisiana Department of Education confirms the scenario voucher opponents have long argued: taxpayer funds in the state's voucher scheme are flowing almost exclusively to religious schools.

The Louisiana Department of Education has released documents showing 119 private and parochial schools are in line to accept public money to educate students who are enrolled in failing public schools or who are entering kindergarten for the first time.

Virtually all of the schools have a church affiliation and most are Catholic. One school – Park Vista Elementary School of Opelousas – is a public school.

This is a central problem with school voucher programs, leading to revelations like the one a state legislator recently experienced when she realized that - zoinks! - non-Christian schools are eligible for taxpayer funding too!

 
 
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