{"id":797,"date":"2008-11-20T21:01:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T01:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=797"},"modified":"2008-12-29T21:46:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T02:46:26","slug":"in-our-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"In our corner"},"content":{"rendered":"

State Rep. Marty Kiar really fought hard on our behalf last legislative session against those deceptively-named academic freedom bills. It looks like we’ll see plenty more of him in the upcoming session<\/a>. Why don’t you send him a note<\/a> of thanks and encouragement?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

State Rep. Marty Kiar really fought hard on our behalf last legislative session against those deceptively-named academic freedom bills. It looks like we’ll see plenty more of him in the upcoming session. Why don’t you send him a note of … 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":[27],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-cR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":905,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=905","url_meta":{"origin":797,"position":0},"title":"Non-answer par for the course","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The St. Petersburg Times education blog, The Gradebook, interviewed House Pre-K-12 policy chairman John Legg. The interview is mostly about getting kids ready for college and how lean budget times affect education bills this session. But the final question is about good ol' intelligent design creationism. It sounds like you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "\"ID Creationism\" bills '09"","block_context":{"text":"\"ID Creationism\" bills '09","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=27"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2418,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2418","url_meta":{"origin":797,"position":1},"title":"Good news from Tallahassee","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Good news: it looks like the horrible instructional materials bills filed in the state legislature are stuck in the mud. Insiders who are much more knowledgeable about the inner workings of Tallahassee told me that the bills have several committees to get through. Because they have yet to be put\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Instructional Materials bills '16"","block_context":{"text":"Instructional Materials bills '16","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=31"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3240,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=3240","url_meta":{"origin":797,"position":2},"title":"Final 2018 legislative update","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"We were deeply worried when the 2018 Florida legislative session kicked off because several bills had been filed that would have directly and negatively impacted science education. 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It's a rebuttal to a previous column written by a Flagler County school board member. She supported the two very bad instructional materials bills currently languishing in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Instructional Materials bills '16"","block_context":{"text":"Instructional Materials bills '16","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=31"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2440,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2440","url_meta":{"origin":797,"position":4},"title":"Session over; Instructional Materials bills dead","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Florida legislative session is mercifully over and the instructional materials bills we've been tracking are history. These ill-conceived bills would have changed the way textbooks and other educational tools are reviewed and selected, handing entirely too much power to well meaning but non-expert parents and not so well meaning,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Instructional Materials bills '16"","block_context":{"text":"Instructional Materials bills '16","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=31"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Textbooks-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":577,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=577","url_meta":{"origin":797,"position":5},"title":"More articles trickle in","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The evolution bills that derailed in the Florida legislature recently are still drawing some attention. This column does a good job of addressing many of the anti-evolution arguments we heard during the legislative session. 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