{"id":27238,"date":"2009-10-02T17:29:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T17:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/10\/02\/more-bad-news-from-louisiana\/"},"modified":"2009-10-02T17:29:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T17:29:58","slug":"more-bad-news-from-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/more-bad-news-from-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"More bad news from Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Louisiana Science Education Act opened the door for creationism to be taught in the state&#8217;s public schools, and now the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is propping the door open, the Louisiana Coalition for Science charges. In a September 28, 2009, press release, the LCS noted, &#8220;On September 16, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) ignored the recommendations of science education professionals in the Louisiana Department of Education (DOE) and allowed the Louisiana Family Forum (LFF), a Religious Right lobbying group, to dictate the procedure concerning complaints about creationist supplementary materials used in public school science classes under the 2008 Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the details at the NCSE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Louisiana Science Education Act opened the door for creationism to be taught in the state&#8217;s public schools, and now the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is propping the door open, the Louisiana Coalition for Science charges. In a September 28, 2009, press release, the LCS noted, &#8220;On September 16, the Board of Elementary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/more-bad-news-from-louisiana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More bad news from Louisiana<\/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":[],"tags":[207,55,156],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-75k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27238"}],"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=27238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}