{"id":633,"date":"2008-07-03T06:47:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T10:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=633"},"modified":"2008-08-30T10:55:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T14:55:42","slug":"looking-for-justice-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"Looking for justice in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former state science director sues over intelligent design e-mail<\/a><\/p>\n

AUSTIN \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A former state science curriculum director filed suit against the Texas Education Agency and Education Commissioner Robert Scott on Wednesday, alleging she was illegally fired for forwarding an e-mail about a lecture that was critical of the teaching of intelligent design in science classes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks for pointing this one out to me, S.Scott. Let’s pray<\/a> that she’ll be successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former state science director sues over intelligent design e-mail AUSTIN \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A former state science curriculum director filed suit against the Texas Education Agency and Education Commissioner Robert Scott on Wednesday, alleging she was illegally fired for forwarding an e-mail … 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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-ad","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":638,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=638","url_meta":{"origin":633,"position":0},"title":"Former state science director sues over intelligent design e-mail","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"July 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Christina Comer a former state science curriculum director\u00c2\u00a0who lost her job at the Texas Education Agency has sued the TEA and\u00c2\u00a0Education Commissioner Robert Scott,alleging she was illegally fired for forwarding an e-mail about a lecture critical of the movement to promote intelligent design in science classes. 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