Public funding of religious schools

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• Daily Kos - KKK Praised in Text used in State-Funded Christian Schools
  KKK Praised in Text used in State-Funded Christian Schools Daily Kos, Jun 17, 2012 "Consider the following claims, from the A Beka Book and Bob Jones University Press fundamentalist textbook lines used in Christian schools now subsidized with state tax money in over a dozen states across America:" - Only ten percent of Africans can read or write, because Christian mission schools have been shut down by communists. - "the [Ku Klux] Klan in some areas of the country tried to be a means of reform, fighting the decline in morality and using the symbol of the cross... In some communities it achieved a certain respectability as it worked with politicians." - "God used the 'Trail of Tears' to bring many Indians to Christ."
• Preview of "School Choice: Taxpayer-Funded Creationism, Bigotry, and Bias"
  Preview of "School Choice: Taxpayer-Funded Creationism, Bigotry, and Bias" Rachel Tabachnick, Jun 27, 2011 "Private schools receiving funding through "school choice" programs are using A Beka Book, Bob Jones University Press, and other Protestant fundamentalist curricula. The textbooks in these series teach that dinosaurs lived on earth with humans; deny global warming; promote hostility toward other religions and other sectors of Christianity (particularly Roman Catholicism); provide a biased and often factually incorrect version of history; and teach extreme laissez-faire economics, claimed to be biblically-based."