A Florida bill aimed at empowering taxpayers to object to the use of specific instructional materials in the public schools, with climate change and evolution clearly among the targets, is now headed to Governor Rick Scott's desk for a signature.
The bill in question is House Bill 989, which the…
The Alabama Senate voted to adopt House Joint Resolution 78 (PDF) on a voice vote on May 2, 2017, joining the Alabama House of Representatives, which voted to adopt the resolution in April 2017.
The resolution ostensibly urges state and local education authorities to promote the academic freedom…
Oklahoma's Senate Bill 393 (PDF), which would empower science denial in the classroom, failed to receive a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives on April 27, 2017, the last day on which it could do so, and is therefore blocked — for now.
SB 393 would have allowed science…
Writing on AL.com (April 27, 2017), Amanda Glaze denounced House Joint Resolution 78 (PDF), which passed the House and is now headed for the floor of the Senate.
As NCSE previously reported, the resolution describes "[b]iological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and…
A story on the Weather Channel's website (April 22, 2017) examined the controversy over the legislature's deletion of climate change from the state science standards in detail. "The Idaho Legislature recently voted to remove the requirement to teach climate science to the state’s students. How…