{"id":2261,"date":"2014-12-30T08:38:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T13:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2014-12-30T08:38:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T13:38:11","slug":"keep-an-eye-on-collier-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2261","title":{"rendered":"Keep an eye on Collier County"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group of concerned citizens in Collier County, led by school board member Kelly Lichter, is taking on the self-appointed task of reviewing textbooks their school district uses. Here’s a news story about their efforts<\/a> (be sure to watch the video). And here is their website<\/a> (Southwest Florida Citizens’ Alliance). I don’t see anything directly related to science education in the story or on the group’s website, but there are a few references to initiatives and their topics of concern that have religious themes that could easily spill over into science education. It seems their main focus is on stopping common core and getting the federal government out of local government. It’s worth keeping an eye on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of concerned citizens in Collier County, led by school board member Kelly Lichter, is taking on the self-appointed task of reviewing textbooks their school district uses. Here’s a news story about their efforts (be sure to watch the … 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-At","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3280,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=3280","url_meta":{"origin":2261,"position":0},"title":"Collier County: science textbooks promote “utter nonsense”","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 17, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Some media outlets are now reporting on the kerfuffle the Florida Citizens' Alliance is causing over science textbooks under consideration for purchase by the Collier County school board. 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