Denver-area's Douglas County has approved a pilot school voucher program that will send up to 500 students to private schools. That will include taxpayer money going to religious schools, which maake up the vast majority of those currently eligible.
After some residents complained that all but one of the 14 eligible private schools within the county are religion-based, the district revised its proposal, expanding the boundaries to include a more diverse group of private schools.
The district also added a provision Tuesday to allow students to opt out of religious instruction at religion-based schools.
As Sanshya Bathija writes at the AU's Wall of Separation, adding this new provision "shows board members’ fundamental misunderstanding of how religious schools work"
