{"id":415,"date":"2008-01-31T06:32:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T11:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=415"},"modified":"2008-08-05T20:43:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T00:43:37","slug":"lafayette-county-goes-all-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Lafayette County goes all out"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lafayette County school board didn’t want to be outdone by anyone. They actually called a special meeting<\/a> for the purpose of doing an anti-evolution resolution.<\/p>\n

The Lafayette County School Board unanimously adopted a resolution in protest of a proposed Florida Department of Education revision of the science portion of the Sunshine State Standards at a special meeting on Jan. 25.<\/p>\n

The meeting, called for the purpose of voting on the resolution, lasted about 15 minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The school district website<\/a> is useless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lafayette County school board didn’t want to be outdone by anyone. They actually called a special meeting for the purpose of doing an anti-evolution resolution. 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Latest bump: Feb. 15.] For your convenience, here is a list of the 12 counties that passed anti-evolution resolutions: Clay, Jackson, Baker, Hamilton, Holmes, St. Johns, Taylor, Madison, Lafayette, Nassau, Washington,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Alert"","block_context":{"text":"Alert","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":381,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=381","url_meta":{"origin":415,"position":1},"title":"Two more resolutions","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"[this post updated with a third county for a total of six so far] I've been doing a methodical search of school district websites for any information that might reveal more school boards issuing anti-evolution resolutions like Taylor, Baker and Holmes did. 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