{"id":310,"date":"2007-11-06T00:47:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T04:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=310"},"modified":"2008-08-05T20:09:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T00:09:11","slug":"public-meetings-about-draft-science-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Public meetings about draft science standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orlando Sentinel blog (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=309\">previous post<\/a>) had mentioned a &#8220;town meeting&#8221; date for public input concerning the new draft of Florida&#8217;s science standards (click on the &#8220;Our Science Standards&#8221; category if you need to catch up on what is going on). I had a tough time trying to find where these town meeting dates are mentioned by the Department of Education. Finally, I was pointed toward a PowerPoint presentation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fldoestem.org\/page170.aspx\">on this web page<\/a>. Go to the presentation from October 26, 2007. On slide 40 it says:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leon County \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Nov. 7, 5:30 to 7 PM \u00e2\u20ac\u201c State Library \u00e2\u20ac\u201c RA Gray Building<\/li>\n<li>Orange County \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Nov. 15, 5:30 to 7 PM \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jones High School<\/li>\n<li>Others (TBD): Broward, Duval, and Hillsborough<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in voicing your opinion, call ahead to the place where the presentation is supposed to take place to make sure it&#8217;s still scheduled, and then show up.<\/p>\n<p>I find it odd that these town hall meetings are not more widely publicized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orlando Sentinel blog (from previous post) had mentioned a &#8220;town meeting&#8221; date for public input concerning the new draft of Florida&#8217;s science standards (click on the &#8220;Our Science Standards&#8221; category if you need to catch up on what is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=310\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-50","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":314,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=314","url_meta":{"origin":310,"position":0},"title":"So, how did the &#8220;town meeting&#8221; about science standards go?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"November 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"There was a meeting Wednesday evening to solicit comments in person about the new draft science standards. It was just a boring, ho-hum meeting, right? A real snooze-fest, right? No. Mark Hohmeister of the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper attended and reports back that things were lively. I wonder why? Wakulla County\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Analysis\/Commentary&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Analysis\/Commentary","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":754,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=754","url_meta":{"origin":310,"position":1},"title":"Eugenie Scott at UCF","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I mentioned before that Eugenie Scott from the National Center for Science Education is going to be here in Florida Nov. 3. The University of Central Florida issued a release about it today. 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