{"id":1350,"date":"2011-06-21T21:28:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T01:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2011-06-21T21:28:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T01:28:03","slug":"education-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1350","title":{"rendered":"Education Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like Gerard Robinson is Florida’s new education commissioner<\/a>. It happened mighty quick and thus raises some questions about whether anything improper was going on behind the scenes<\/a>. And where does science education fit into all of this? Nowhere, apparently<\/a>. There are some mentions of Robinson promoting STEM education in the past<\/a>, but I haven’t found much. We’ll just have to wait and see how things shake out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It looks like Gerard Robinson is Florida’s new education commissioner. It happened mighty quick and thus raises some questions about whether anything improper was going on behind the scenes. And where does science education fit into all of this? 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