{"id":1305,"date":"2008-01-31T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/31\/florida-yahoos-acting-out-agai\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T10:00:23","slug":"florida-yahoos-acting-out-agai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/31\/florida-yahoos-acting-out-agai\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Yahoos Acting Out Against Evolutionary Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish we had more details of this story, but this is what we know so far:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Lafayette County School Board unanimously adopted a resolution in protest of a proposed Florida Department of Education revision of the science portion of the Sunshine State Standards at a special meeting on Jan. 25.According to Fred Ward, Lafayette County superintendent of schools, FDOE is considering new standards which would make the teaching of evolution mandatory in every school and to disallow the teaching of any other explanation about how the earth, universe, and man came into existence.&#8221;The new Sunshine State Standards for Science no longer present evolution as theory but as scientific fact,&#8221; Robert Koon, chairperson, said.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suwanneedemocrat.com\/mayo\/local_story_030161446.html?keyword=topstory\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish we had more details of this story, but this is what we know so far:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[207,55,151,156],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-l3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}