{"id":1213,"date":"2010-08-07T18:51:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T22:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2010-08-07T18:51:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T22:51:52","slug":"more-on-pasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"More on Pasco"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are already aware of John Tracy running for a school board seat<\/a> in Pasco County. But the article linked in that previous post was from October of last year. An article today<\/a> leaves no doubt about Tracy’s stance on evolution. What’s of particular interest to me is that it’s obviously not just something he happens to believe, but is clearly a solid plank in his platform. He can’t help but mention it when interviewed.<\/p>\n

Tracy said he is not out to change the curriculum. Still, he said, students should have a choice about whether they want to learn about evolution in science classes. He also called for making sure that religious references are not wiped out of history books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are already aware of John Tracy running for a school board seat in Pasco County. But the article linked in that previous post was from October of last year. An article today leaves no doubt about Tracy’s stance on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-jz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1197,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1197","url_meta":{"origin":1213,"position":0},"title":"And keep an eye on Pasco","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been given some tips lately about various school board candidates (such as Terry Kemple in Hillsborough) who aren't exactly friends to science education. 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