Students taking part in a private school voucher program in Indiana are lagging behind public school students academically, a new study has noted. Meanwhile, an examination of Flor­­­i­da’s new voucher program, which supposedly will help students who are being bullied, shows that the plan is likely to end up fostering discrimination instead.

Private school voucher programs in Florida and Indiana have made headlines in recent weeks, and the news is not good. This comes as no surprise to us at Americans United, as years of studies have shown that vouchers don’t improve student achievement and lack accountability. They also funnel public money to private, mostly religious schools that can discriminate and that ignore federal civil rights laws.

A Florida county school district came one vote short of adopting a policy of teaching creationism in public school science classes.