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Florida Today makes some recommendations for the Brevard County School Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The four other candidates for the seat [District 4] — Richard Contreras, Karen Henderson, Dean Paterakis and Tom Wuchte — also want to boost education in Brevard, but lack expertise or promote flawed policies.<\/p>\n

All support the teaching faith-based intelligent design as an alternative to science-based evolution. Three — Contreras, Wuchte and Paterakis — favor proposed constitutional amendments that would drain dollars from public schools already in a funding crisis and give them to private or religious ones through voucher programs.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

He’s [Stuart Rowan, District 5] also a firm believer in the separation of church and state and rightly says it’s very inappropriate to teach religious doctrine such as creationism or intelligent design in the science classroom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida Today makes some recommendations for the Brevard County School Board. The four other candidates for the seat [District 4] — Richard Contreras, Karen Henderson, Dean Paterakis and Tom Wuchte — also want to boost education in Brevard, but lack … 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":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-bd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":729,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=729","url_meta":{"origin":695,"position":0},"title":"Intelligent choices","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Intelligent choices Brevard School Board should toss aside textbooks that undermine scientific learning Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good editorial that gives me hope that there are, in fact, voices of reason out there. 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