NC School Voucher Program

[formergothardite]

A study was done on what sort of schools are receiving tax payer money in NC through the school voucher program. Surprising absolutely no one, three out of four of the schools receiving the money are fundamental Christian schools who provide a shit education. It appears there is virtually no oversight when handing out this money, which is almost certainly how the republicans set it up. 

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Fundamentalist Christian schools are receiving most of the money from North Carolina's 4-year-old school voucher program, but they're not providing anything close to the “sound basic education” the state Constitution promises to North Carolina’s children,

 

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77 percent of private schools receiving vouchers are using curricula that do not comply with state standards, leaving many students unprepared for college-level coursework or careers in certain fields.

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the finding from that very large sample is that at least three out of four were using the A Beka curriculum or other “Christian biblical world view” instruction guides. For the 2017-18 school year, Bechard found that in the sample of schools she studied, 3,884 vouchers went to students attending biblical world view schools.

 

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The textbooks are also laced with critical comments from a deeply conservative perspective.

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Lawrence Kessler, a professor emeritus at UNC-CH and former chair of UNC’s Department of Asian Studies, to evaluate an A Beka world history textbook’s section on Asia. “He said he found multiple errors on every page," she said. "He was very blunt. He said it was nonsense.

 

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The lack of educational rigor at many of the schools teaching a biblical worldview curriculum hasn't come under state scrutiny because the law that created the voucher program provides very little of it.

http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/ned-barnett/article212352824.html

[Cartmann99]

The children of North Carolina deserve better than this.