Jeb Bush And His Cronies Have Big Plans for Govt.-Funded Religious Schools in Florida

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Jeb Bush And His Cronies Have Big Plans for Govt.-Funded Religious Schools in Florida

By Joseph L. Conn, Church & State Magazine. Posted June 21, 2008.

Religious school scheme backed by the former Fla. governor has provoked a church-state showdown with national ramifications


Dade County, Fla., is home to almost 200 religious schools.

According to the Florida Department of Education’s data from the 2006-2007 school year, an array of denominations and faith perspectives is represented. Forty-five schools are affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, but many other spiritual traditions answered the state roll call.

All Angels Academy is Episcopalian, Christ Fellowship Academy is Baptist, Clara Mohammed School of Miami is Islamic, Greater Miami Hebrew Academy is Jewish, World Mission of Jesus Christ Christian is non-denominational, New Testament Church of Transfiguration School is Pentecostal and Glory of God Christian School is affiliated with the Assemblies of God.

Some are well-established and fully accredited with a qualified teaching staff and a tradition of educational excellence. Others are small, poorly equipped and devoted to religious indoctrination, not academic accomplishment.

If former Gov. Jeb Bush and his allies have their way, however, all of these schools – and private academies like them around the state – will soon be eligible for massive new streams of public funding, courtesy of the state’s taxpayers.

Bush has engineered onto the November ballot two initiatives that would eliminate the state constitution’s strict church-state separation provisions, mandate funding of religion and water down language requiring a quality public school system.

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[midnight]

1. Christian schools have offered a choice for those parents out

there who found no child left behind a crock. Govt. ties with these schools might give govt. lots more control over tho independence from no child left behind mentality.

[Joe Bacon]

2. $o how mu¢h will $¢ientology get from Jeb?

Something tells me Tom ¢ruiSe is gonna get mighty pi$$ed off at Jebthro!

[Hannah Bell]

3. Same as in louisiana. This is planned.

[sourmilk]

4. I hope for a better outcome from gov't funded religious schools...

than the gov't funded Florida Flight school in 2001...