Alaska Senator Wants To Fund Religious Materials For Homeschoolers

In Alaska, home-schooled students receive state funds to pay for supplies. Now an Alaska state senator is urging a change in the rules so that students can use that money to buy religious textbooks and religious software to use along with secular material. Tuesday's Anchorage Daily News reported that Senator Fred Dyson raised the issue at a recent state Board of Education meeting. "If the material meets academic standards, then it ought not to be disqualified just on the basis that it has some religious connotations," Dyson said.