{"id":375,"date":"2008-01-08T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T23:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=375"},"modified":"2008-08-05T21:16:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T01:16:52","slug":"new-newspaper-blog-jumps-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"New newspaper blog jumps in"},"content":{"rendered":"

The St. Petersburg education blog, The Gradebook<\/a>, has been tracking the state science standards story in a very dedicated way. Now the Palm Beach Post adds their voice to the blog world with their own education blog, Extra Credit<\/a>. The writers promise to be all over the science standards story, too. As a matter of fact, there are already a couple of posts on the subject up, with one focusing on some positive support<\/a> for strong science:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s amazing that we might actually rise out of the Middle Ages,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Rep. Shelley Vana, ranking party member of the House K-12 education committee.<\/p>\n

The Lantana Democrat and former AP biology teacher said it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impossible to teach her subject without touching on evolution.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Palm Beach County School District superintendent Art Johnson said the real issue isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t evolution, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s whether alternative ideas such as intelligent design should be paid any attention.<\/p>\n

And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s barely a debate worth having, Johnson said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The St. Petersburg education blog, The Gradebook, has been tracking the state science standards story in a very dedicated way. Now the Palm Beach Post adds their voice to the blog world with their own education blog, Extra Credit. 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Let's move on to see what's in store for us the day after the final public meeting about the new draft of the state science\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In the News"","block_context":{"text":"In the News","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2023,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2023","url_meta":{"origin":375,"position":1},"title":"Folks worried about Tuck","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Two letters to the editor were printed in today's Daytona Beach News Journal about the appointment of Andy Tuck to the Florida Board of Education. First one: Religion, not science Should Gov. 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