Texas Should Allow Charter Schools To Impliment Religion If They Want To

There have been ongoing stories and issues being brought up in the state of Texas about religion in charter schools. A recent story about a school called the Eleanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy, deals with religion and financial issues. This charter school, located in San Antonio, mainly is surrounded and is based on Jewish and Israeli culture. It opened in August and is the first Texas charter the offers Hebrew. School officials make the claim that their classes are in fact aligned with the state curriculum. Last year the academy was a private Jewish day school, using no public funding. Now, as a charter school, they receive public funding. This is not the only school that has done this. When schools take upon this action, they tend to draw attention as a potential problem to the state. New charter schools are simply a reincarnation of a previous existing school. Critics worry that religious schools are changing their names in order to obtain public money. Giving a school a name change (from insert church school, to charter school) and perhaps even a change in location has been an ongoing trend. Why? It is a tactic used to receive public funding. But of course most churches do this in order to help spread and preserve their religious culture. In order to get other people to have a better understanding of their own culture and religious beliefs they need to make the big switch to charter schools. But without the public funding they could lose diversity, which would defeat the whole purpose of spreading their culture.