{"id":2066,"date":"2014-03-26T12:02:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2014-06-22T17:04:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T21:04:57","slug":"editorial-blasts-textbook-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2066","title":{"rendered":"Editorial blasts textbook bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

An editorial in the Orlando Sentinel tears Senator Hays’ textbook approval process bill to shreds: Don’t leave textbook vetting to local districts.<\/a><\/p>\n

State Sen. Alan Hays, a Umatilla Republican whose district abuts Volusia County, isn’t letting the facts get in the way of a bad proposal. A bill he sponsored in response to the ruckus would wrest the process of vetting and approving textbooks from the state and dump it on local school districts.<\/p>\n

This idea deserves an F.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And of special interest to us …<\/p>\n

And districts might find it harder than the state to stand up to unfounded protests like the one in Volusia County. Pressure groups might punch holes in the curriculum, or add elements, such as creationism, that don’t belong in a public-school education.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An editorial in the Orlando Sentinel tears Senator Hays’ textbook approval process bill to shreds: Don’t leave textbook vetting to local districts. State Sen. Alan Hays, a Umatilla Republican whose district abuts Volusia County, isn’t letting the facts get in … 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-xk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2019,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2019","url_meta":{"origin":2066,"position":0},"title":"Details emerge about textbook bill","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"As I've noted before, there is a bill in the state legislature that proposes to turn review and selection of all public school textbooks over to local school districts, removing state-level government from the process completely. 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