{"id":3046,"date":"2017-12-23T11:17:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?page_id=3046"},"modified":"2021-02-20T09:50:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T14:50:49","slug":"defending-science-education-since-2006","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending science education since 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s 2021 and we’re still fighting the same battles over the teaching of evolution (and now climate change) in our schools that have been ongoing for decades. Bills filed in previous year’s state legislative session targeted so-called “controversial theories” taught in science classes. Citizens and school board officials have attacked fact-based science textbooks in Nassau, Collier, and Marion Counties and possibly others. A concerted effort to unleash yet more money to go to private schools that teach creationism while denigrating evolution and other basic science topics is gaining steam. Critical science teacher shortages across the state are jeopardizing science education for hundreds if not thousands of Florida students.\u00c2\u00a0 Learn more about these ongoing battles by exploring the Issues tab at the top of this page.<\/p>\n

Florida Citizens for Science is a statewide nonprofit 501c3 organization that was established in 2006 with the purpose of promoting and defending quality science education in the Sunshine State. We’ve been at the forefront of the endless battles over textbooks, our state science education standards and repeated attempts to undermine science education by state and local elected officials.<\/p>\n

Our success depends on you. Please join us in our fight on behalf of our students, schools and future.<\/p>\n

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Read the book inspired by Florida Citizens for Science<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>Going Ape: Florida’s Battles over Evolution in the Classroom<\/em><\/strong>. For nearly a century, Florida has been a key battleground for the teaching of evolution in public schools. Before he successfully prosecuted Tennessee teacher John Scopes in the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial, William Jennings Bryan was a prominent anti-evolution agitator in Florida. More than ninety years later, tensions still run high on both sides of the issue, erupting regularly and sometimes spectacularly.<\/p>\n

Personally involved in the Florida evolution dispute since 2006 as a founding board member of Florida Citizens for Science, author Brandon Haught is uniquely poised to present this dramatic conflict from an insider\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s point-of-view. His eye for rich detail enlivens this engrossing saga as it stretches across the decades of the twentieth century and into the present. Given a social climate where the teaching of evolution continues to sharply divide neighbors and communities, Going Ape<\/em> is a must-read for anyone concerned with the future of public education.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Going Ape<\/em> at the author’s website<\/a>. Available at the University Press of Florida<\/a>, Amazon<\/a> or other booksellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The bill proposes allowing school districts to adopt their own sets of educational standards if\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3062,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?page_id=3062","url_meta":{"origin":3046,"position":3},"title":"About Us","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"December 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Media and Speakers Contacts The following people are available for media interviews and speaking engagements. Brandon Haught, Communications Director Email: bhaught@flascience.org High school biology\/environmental science teacher. -- Author of Going Ape: Florida's Battles over Evolution in the Classroom. -- Recipient of National Center for Science Education's Friend of Darwin Award.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3100,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?page_id=3100","url_meta":{"origin":3046,"position":4},"title":"Religious Expression in Schools Law","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"December 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Background: The Florida legislature presented Governor Rick Scott with the Religious Expression in Public Schools bill in June 2017 and he quickly signed it into law.\u00c2\u00a0There are two sections of the bill\u00c2\u00a0(link to pdf) that concern us here at Florida Citizens for Science. 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