{"id":1551,"date":"2012-05-23T08:05:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T12:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2012-05-23T08:05:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T12:05:23","slug":"well-it-was-a-bold-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1551","title":{"rendered":"Well, it was a bold idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brevard County wanted to add more science and social studies to their schools’ graduation requirements. But money woes killed the plan. Stricter Brevard Public Schools graduation requirements fall to tight times<\/a><\/p>\n

It was an ambitious objective, to require high school students to take four years of science and social studies classes to graduate from Brevard Public Schools \u00e2\u20ac\u201d an extra year of each subject than is required by the state.<\/p>\n

But amid funding shortfalls, it never came to fruition. The Brevard School Board temporarily waived its harder graduation requirement for students graduating in 2011, the first year it was to take effect, and again the following year, for this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s graduating class.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, school board members voted to permanently remove the requirement from its books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brevard County wanted to add more science and social studies to their schools’ graduation requirements. But money woes killed the plan. Stricter Brevard Public Schools graduation requirements fall to tight times It was an ambitious objective, to require high school … 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-p1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2917,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2917","url_meta":{"origin":1551,"position":0},"title":"Brevard County asking for help with science materials selection","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"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: Community Involvement Opportunity. Brevard Public Schools (BPS) is inviting parents\/community\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Textbooks"","block_context":{"text":"Textbooks","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=26"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":398,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=398","url_meta":{"origin":1551,"position":1},"title":"Creationism is taught in Florida?!","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"An article in today's Florida Today focuses on what evolution in the public schools means to Brevard County. The majority of quotes in the story are outstanding, and, quite frankly, reality based. Here's a sample. Superintendent Richard DiPatri said the change wouldn't make a difference in Brevard Public Schools, where\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In the News"","block_context":{"text":"In the News","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":695,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=695","url_meta":{"origin":1551,"position":2},"title":"Silly season in Brevard","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"August 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida Today makes some recommendations for the Brevard County School Board. The four other candidates for the seat [District 4] -- Richard Contreras, Karen Henderson, Dean Paterakis and Tom Wuchte -- also want to boost education in Brevard, but lack expertise or promote flawed policies. All support the teaching faith-based\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Election season '08"","block_context":{"text":"Election season '08","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=18"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":883,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=883","url_meta":{"origin":1551,"position":3},"title":"Science fairs and Olympiads roundup","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"South Brevard science fair: Why it matters Last year, science fair projects led to Brevard students winning more than $253,000 in cash awards, prizes and college scholarships at regional, state and international science fairs. Edison science and engineering fair: Samantha Prabakaran's experiment was no small feat. She worked last summer\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":328,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=328","url_meta":{"origin":1551,"position":4},"title":"Space Week","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"November 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Science is a hands-on field of study. Kids need to do it to learn it. That's where Space Week comes in. Becoming the next generation of NASA astronauts was a goal on the minds of many of the 700 Brevard County sixth-graders who came out for the first day of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In the Classroom"","block_context":{"text":"In the Classroom","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":729,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=729","url_meta":{"origin":1551,"position":5},"title":"Intelligent choices","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Intelligent choices Brevard School Board should toss aside textbooks that undermine scientific learning Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good editorial that gives me hope that there are, in fact, voices of reason out there. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no debate in legitimate scientific circles that evolution is the bedrock biological principle and should be taught to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Textbooks"","block_context":{"text":"Textbooks","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=26"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}