{"id":2465,"date":"2016-05-31T16:43:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T20:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2016-05-31T16:43:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T20:43:35","slug":"keep-an-eye-on-broward-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2465","title":{"rendered":"Keep an eye on Broward County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hemant Mehta posted at his Friendly Atheist blog something that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2016\/05\/31\/why-did-this-school-board-chair-brag-about-hiring-principals-who-loved-the-lord\/\">sure is making me raise my eyebrows<\/a>. The chair of the Broward County School Board, Dr. Rosalind Osgood, said this during a\u00c2\u00a0worship service at Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>God has really blessed me this school year that a lot of my principals were transitioned out, and he filled those spots with new principals that were saved. Principals that loved the Lord.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BPzSKF6g5-U?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A quote like that makes me wonder if any particular religious philosophy makes it way through these &#8220;saved&#8221; principals into the schools&#8217; curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone is in Broward County, please keep an eye on this.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.browardschools.com\/Our-School-Board\/Meet-the-Board\/District-5\">Dr. Osgood&#8217;s bio<\/a> at the Broward school board website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hemant Mehta posted at his Friendly Atheist blog something that sure is making me raise my eyebrows. The chair of the Broward County School Board, Dr. Rosalind Osgood, said this during a\u00c2\u00a0worship service at Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale: God has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2465\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":true,"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-DL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":740,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=740","url_meta":{"origin":2465,"position":0},"title":"Evolution in school board elections: Broward","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It amazes me that one particular school subject -- evolution -- becomes an issue in school board elections. 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