{"id":9206,"date":"2010-12-09T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/12\/09\/final-vote-biology-textbooks-a\/"},"modified":"2010-12-09T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T20:56:00","slug":"final-vote-biology-textbooks-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/final-vote-biology-textbooks-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Vote: Biology textbooks approved in Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>At its December 9, 2010, meeting, the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted 8-2 to approve high school biology textbooks, despite the ongoing complaints of creationists objecting to their treatment of evolution. As NCSE previously reported, a decision on the textbooks, expected initially in October 2010, was deferred by the board, which sought a recommendation from its Textbook\/Media\/Library Advisory Council. On November 12, 2010, the council voted 8-4 to recommend the textbooks. Then, on December 7, 2010, a committee of the board voted 6-1 to move forward with the purchase, &#8220;over the objection of a crowd of people who wanted books that at least mention creationism or intelligent design or say that evolution is not a fact,&#8221; according to the Lafayette Daily Advertiser (December 7, 2010).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2010\/12\/biology-textbooks-approved-louisiana-006357\">More here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At its December 9, 2010, meeting, the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted 8-2 to approve high school biology textbooks, despite the ongoing complaints of creationists objecting to their treatment of evolution. As NCSE previously reported, a decision on the textbooks, expected initially in October 2010, was deferred by the board, which sought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/final-vote-biology-textbooks-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Final Vote: Biology textbooks approved in 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":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2ou","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9206"}],"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=9206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}