{"id":2440,"date":"2016-03-13T12:16:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T16:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2016-03-13T12:16:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T16:16:35","slug":"session-over-instructional-materials-bills-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2440","title":{"rendered":"Session over; Instructional Materials bills dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Textbooks\"<\/a>The Florida legislative session is mercifully over and the instructional materials bills we’ve been tracking are history. These ill-conceived bills would have changed the way textbooks and other educational tools are reviewed and selected, handing entirely too much power to well meaning but non-expert parents and not so well meaning, ideologically driven special interest groups. You can learn more about the bills and why there were bad for science education in our news release<\/a> and series of blog posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I told the National Center for Science Education<\/a> this weekend:\u00c2\u00a0“We’re fortunate and happy that these bad bills didn’t get out of the starting gate,” Florida Citizens for Science’s Brandon Haught told NCSE. “The good thing to come out of this brief fight is that a clear anti-science motivation behind these bills is now documented. The bills’ sponsors and supporters aren’t likely to give up, though. But we’ll be ready, just as we have been for a full ten years now.”<\/p>\n

I predict that the main cheerleaders for these bills, Florida Citizens Alliance<\/a>, will be back. They have a sizable network and they visited Tallahassee in person to help round up four co-sponsors on the senate bill and 19 co-sponsors on the house bill. They’re worth keeping an eye on.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, as I told NCSE, the good thing is that Florida Citizens Alliance handed us all sorts of evidence of their anti-science views, which can be very useful in the future. And we also made some very good friends with other groups opposed to the Alliance’s antics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Florida legislative session is mercifully over and the instructional materials bills we’ve been tracking are history. 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It's a rebuttal to a previous column written by a Flagler County school board member. She supported the two very bad instructional materials bills currently languishing in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Instructional Materials bills '16"","block_context":{"text":"Instructional Materials bills '16","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=31"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2397,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2397","url_meta":{"origin":2440,"position":1},"title":"Florida Citizens for Science News Release","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"News Release Lawmakers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Instructional Materials Proposal: Costly Headache for School Boards Jan 11, 2016 Florida Citizens for Science Florida Citizens for Science opposes companion bills filed in the Florida House and Senate, HB899 and SB1018, both entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Instructional Materials for K-12 Public Education.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d We assert that these bills are in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Instructional Materials bills '16"","block_context":{"text":"Instructional Materials bills '16","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=31"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2933,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2933","url_meta":{"origin":2440,"position":2},"title":"What’s in store for the next Florida legislative session?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The creationist, human-caused-climate-change-denying group Florida Citizens Alliance was successful in writing and getting passed a new law that dramatically impacts how instructional materials used in our schools can be challenged and changed -- in a bad way. 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