{"id":2079,"date":"2014-04-06T21:04:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T01:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2014-06-22T17:04:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T21:04:34","slug":"school-vouchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2079","title":{"rendered":"School Vouchers."},"content":{"rendered":"

My letter to the Lakeland Ledger<\/a> was featured today, stating that we, at the FCS would like to see accountability for the millions in tax payers\u00c2\u00a0dollars\u00c2\u00a0which are being given to schools which only\u00c2\u00a0teach psudo science and superstition in thier science class rooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My letter to the Lakeland Ledger was featured today, stating that we, at the FCS would like to see accountability for the millions in tax payers\u00c2\u00a0dollars\u00c2\u00a0which are being given to schools which only\u00c2\u00a0teach psudo science and superstition in thier science … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-xx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":859,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=859","url_meta":{"origin":2079,"position":0},"title":"Understanding Science site","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"From the folks who brought us Understanding Evolution comes another great education site: Understanding Science. An example from the site: Science is complex and multi-faceted, but the most important characteristics of science are straightforward: * Science focuses exclusively on the natural world, and does not deal with supernatural explanations. *\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":286,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=286","url_meta":{"origin":2079,"position":1},"title":"Science FCAT prep soon to be just a click away","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"September 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This news article announces that South Florida Science Museum has been awarded a grant to create science FCAT preparation materials available \"anywhere, anytime.\" The materials are to take advantage of the Internet and iPods. I had trouble finding any other website other than the news article that talks about this\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":3403,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=3403","url_meta":{"origin":2079,"position":2},"title":"News Roundup 1\/20\/19","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"There are several items in the news of interest to us here at Florida Citizens for Science. We'll start with the budding coverage of a bill filed in our state legislature that could directly impact science education here in the Sunshine State. (See our issues page\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Controversial Theories\/Rigorous Standards\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bills 2019\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":196,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=196","url_meta":{"origin":2079,"position":3},"title":"Perspective on science fairs","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I've posted here before about stories lamenting the decline in science fair participation. A retired professor has a different\u00c2\u00a0perspective on what's going on at science fairs and just how useful they are (or not). My experience has been that many of these competitions, like a lot of competitions among children,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Analysis\/Commentary"","block_context":{"text":"Analysis\/Commentary","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":64,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=64","url_meta":{"origin":2079,"position":4},"title":"Dr. Scott fires back","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 11, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"We at Florida Citizens for Science brought Mr. Fisher's guest column to Dr. Eugenie Scott's attention, since she was quotied by him. She didn't like what she saw, and so she fired off a response which was published today: By Dr. Eugenie C. 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