{"id":1021,"date":"2009-04-28T08:09:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T12:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2009-05-31T19:19:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T23:19:06","slug":"now-physics-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1021","title":{"rendered":"Now physics is gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheesh, activity in the legislature can turn on a dime. Paul R says the following in the comments of the previous post on science education bills<\/a>:<\/p>\n

HB 7087<\/a> is a disaster and it has supplanted all other bills and now the Senate has engrossed it into a bill sponsored by Sen. Wise, SB 2482 <\/a>– physics is gone, physical science is gone, Biology is the only listed science and it must be tested as the sole representative of high school science literacy. Also gone – the mathematics requirements for algebra 2 and geometry.<\/p>\n

This is wrong. All the gains in the amendments spoken of here are gone. Unfortunately it appears that inertia has overcome momentum here. The President spoke of a new national commitment to math and science education at NAS yesterday. I think Florida will need a waiver for that national program, too.<\/p>\n

In any case, SB 2482, which is now identical to HB 7087, is slated for passage today in the Senate, which will likely mean that Gov. Crist will have the next say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sheesh, activity in the legislature can turn on a dime. Paul R says the following in the comments of the previous post on science education bills: HB 7087 is a disaster and it has supplanted all other bills and now … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-gt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":991,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=991","url_meta":{"origin":1021,"position":0},"title":"High School science concerns","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 7, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul Cottle, a professor of physics at Florida State University and a member of the committee that drafted Florida's new science standards, has been busy writing articles in defense of science education. 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