{"id":2631,"date":"2017-03-27T16:51:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2017-03-27T16:51:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:51:40","slug":"its-unanimous-florida-lawmakers-disregard-danger-to-science-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2631","title":{"rendered":"It’s unanimous … Florida lawmakers disregard danger to science education"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Textbooks\"<\/a>The bad instructional materials bills that we believe can open up the doors of our schools to grossly anti-science ideologies cruised through two committee meetings today.<\/p>\n

The Senate Education Committee<\/a> gave a favorable report on a unanimous 9-0 vote.<\/p>\n

The House\u00c2\u00a0PreK-12 Quality Subcommittee<\/a> gave a favorable report on a unanimous 14-0 vote.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t able to view or listen to either meeting. I hope to watch the recordings but I don’t know that I’ll have the time anytime soon. If you were able to watch, or if you can watch the recordings, I encourage you to give us a report on what happened in the comments or via email. We need to know if our concerns were brought up at all. (Links to the Senate Education Committee video can be found on this page<\/a>. Links to the House PreK-12 Quality Subcommittee video can be found on this page<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I know that it’s frustrating to lose. But this was just one round. The Senate bill still must go through the\u00c2\u00a0Appropriations Committee<\/a>. The House bill still must go through the PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee<\/a> and the Education Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If our voices weren’t heard in today’s committees, then that should give us the motivation to be even louder the next time.<\/p>\n

Contact lawmakers on the committees by both phone and email (use the above committee links). Make sure you clearly state your opposition to the bills and why you’re opposed.\u00c2\u00a0Emphasize the harm to science education and why our concerns are real and must NOT be dismissed as far-fetched (see our post \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nowhere in the material is a balanced discussion of the biblical explanation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0for details about our issues with the bill and the evidence for our claims.) Explain to them the humiliation Florida experienced the past few times creationism became a statewide education issue.<\/p>\n

I know we all have jobs and responsibilities at home, but is anyone possibly available to go to Tallahassee to speak at any of the future committee meetings? Our opposition has multiple representatives hard at work there. We need to have a turn at the microphone.<\/p>\n

Use the comments section of this post. Email Florida Citizens for Science board members<\/a> or give us a call. We need your help and we need to hear from you.<\/p>\n

What are you going to do to defend science education today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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