{"id":24831,"date":"2011-02-23T12:31:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T12:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/02\/23\/antievolution-bill-in-new-mexi\/"},"modified":"2011-02-23T12:31:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T12:31:34","slug":"antievolution-bill-in-new-mexi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/antievolution-bill-in-new-mexi\/","title":{"rendered":"Antievolution bill in New Mexico tabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>House Bill 302 was tabled by the Education Committee of the New Mexico House of Representatives on a 5-4 vote on February 18, 2011, suggesting that it is unlikely to come to a floor vote before the legislature adjourns on March 19, 2011. A version of the currently popular &#8220;academic freedom&#8221; antievolution strategy, HB 302, if enacted, would require teachers to be allowed to inform students &#8220;about relevant scientific information regarding either the scientific strengths or scientific weaknesses&#8221; pertaining to &#8220;controversial&#8221; scientific topics and would protect teachers from &#8220;reassignment, termination, discipline or other discrimination for doing so.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2011\/02\/antievolution-bill-new-mexico-tabled-006495\"><br \/>\nDetails here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Bill 302 was tabled by the Education Committee of the New Mexico House of Representatives on a 5-4 vote on February 18, 2011, suggesting that it is unlikely to come to a floor vote before the legislature adjourns on March 19, 2011. A version of the currently popular &#8220;academic freedom&#8221; antievolution strategy, HB 302, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/23\/antievolution-bill-in-new-mexi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Antievolution bill in New Mexico tabled<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6sv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24831"}],"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=24831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}