{"id":253,"date":"2007-07-25T17:24:31","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T21:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=253"},"modified":"2008-08-05T13:44:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T17:44:37","slug":"who-will-be-voted-off-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Who will be voted off first?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve noticed a bit of a mean streak in the slowly growing coverage of the search for Florida’s next education commissioner. An opinion piece slices and dices Jeb Bush’s education legacy<\/a> (and coolly dropped in a mention of creationism in Yecke’s past). A news piece\u00c2\u00a0makes of point of how few people have applied<\/a> for the job. Another opinion piece advises the Education Board to take the selection process seriously and restore some integrity<\/a>. Get the popcorn ready, this ought to be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve noticed a bit of a mean streak in the slowly growing coverage of the search for Florida’s next education commissioner. An opinion piece slices and dices Jeb Bush’s education legacy (and coolly dropped in a mention of creationism 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":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-45","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2147,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2147","url_meta":{"origin":253,"position":0},"title":"It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been downhill ever since …","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida State University physics professor Paul Cottle has an opinion piece in today's Tallahassee Democrat: Science education takes a downward slide. 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