Monthly Archives: October 2017

What’s in store for the next Florida legislative session?

The creationist, human-caused-climate-change-denying group Florida Citizens Alliance was successful in writing and getting passed a new law that dramatically impacts how instructional materials used in our schools can be challenged and changed — in a bad way. (See the Instructional … Continue reading

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Another barrel of rotten apples

The Orlando Sentinel is publishing a three part series about Florida private schools raking in voucher money from the state despite some incredibly ugly problems at those schools. The first part ran today: Schools Without Rules: An Orlando Sentinel Investigation (Florida … Continue reading

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David against the state’s Goliath

Florida’s new Instructional Materials law is now featured in an article in the AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) Explorer: Science Curricula Under Threat? The problem, according to those who think there is one, is in the first sentence of Florida … Continue reading

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Dixie County’s “inappropriate subject matter” book ban

On the Gulf Coast of Florida, west of Gainesville, is Dixie County, which recently attracted attention from the National Coalition Against Censorship. According to the NCAC, the school district’s superintendent, Mike Thomas, issued a directive “which prohibits the school district … Continue reading

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Brevard County asking for help with science materials selection

Thanks to an alert Florida Citizens for Science friend, we now know that Brevard County is looking for the public’s input about what science instructional materials to adopt for their school district. Read this pdf listing the dates and events: … Continue reading

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Eugenie Scott, Brandon Haught, Bertha Vazquez in Orlando this month

I’m reproducing here an edited notice that the National Center for Science Education sent out recently about a central Florida event coming up: NCSE’s founding executive director Eugenie C. Scott will be speaking on “Race, Science, and Society” at 4:30 … Continue reading

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