The Louisiana legislature narrowly passed a
new education spending bill last week that allows students in
low-performing districts to pay for private school tuition using
state-funded vouchers.
The new
provisions for funding private and parochial schools has quickly
devolved into a war of words over religion. Even though millions of
dollars are being made available to dozens of schools with overt
religious agendas, some Republicans balked at the last minute when it was revealed that a private Islamic school had also applied for 38 vouchers under the new program:
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