If K-12 education interests you, see this Reuters article about pupil vouchers in Louisiana. Governor Bobby Jindal is behind forcing through a state-wide voucher program that is the broadest in the nation. By next year every pupil in Louisiana will have access to state vouchers that can be used at a range of private schools - religious and otherwise.
Each student who takes advantage of a voucher will mean thousands of dollars less for public education. The National Education Association must be outraged.
I admit to being more than a little nervous about some of the religious schools' science curriculums teaching only creationism. On the other hand, all voucher students will have to pass state standardized tests which should provide some need for teaching regular, evolution-based biology.
That's assuming the state of Louisiana recognizes evolution as noncontroversial - a rather sweeping assumption in the biblically literal, highly religious Deep South. On the other hand, Louisiana historically has a large Roman Catholic population, so perhaps it is an exception to the southern evangelical mode.
