{"id":27510,"date":"2008-01-18T11:02:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T11:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/18\/clay-county-signs-on-to-evolut\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T11:02:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T11:02:20","slug":"clay-county-signs-on-to-evolut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/18\/clay-county-signs-on-to-evolut\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay County Passes Controversial Evolution Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Post Revised]<br \/>\nAccording to one story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After a public hearing Thursday evening to discuss a possible change in the way science courses are taught in public schools, the Clay County [Florida] School Board voted unanimously to support a change in the state science curriculum that would use the word evolution in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>The state Board of Education will scheduled to vote Feb. 19 on the change, which would require more in-depth teaching of evolution and other scientific topics while setting specific benchmarks for students to meet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/15081062\/detail.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But according to other sources, things are not quite sanguine in clay county:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The attorney for the board said that the resolution came as close as possible to violating the Kitzmiller decision without actually crossing the line.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2008\/01\/reporting-on-cl.html\">Panda&#8217;s Thumb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking towards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/\">Florida Citizens for Science<\/a> for some accurate information but not seeing it yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Post Revised] According to one story: After a public hearing Thursday evening to discuss a possible change in the way science courses are taught in public schools, the Clay County [Florida] School Board voted unanimously to support a change in the state science curriculum that would use the word evolution in the classroom. The state &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/18\/clay-county-signs-on-to-evolut\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clay County Passes Controversial Evolution Resolution<\/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":[207,55,156,2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-79I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27510"}],"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=27510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}