Hi all,
The good news is that these terrible bills were not passed. The bad news is
that they were introduced in the first place. Hey there all you loonies of
the right and fellow trumpsters, if you want a civil war on your hands just
keep right on doing what you've been doing since Obama was elected in 2008.
Bob Hachey
S. Dakota science bill is rejected . By Valerie Strauss The Washington Post
News Service . An "alternative facts" science bill in South Dakota was
recently defeated in the state Senate's education committee. It was the
first of four similar bills introduced in 2017 in state legislatures to die.
SB55 would have allowed teachers to teach anything they want as science, as
long as they used certain language. There are three other bills in state
legislatures at the moment that would allow science denial in classrooms:
Indiana's Senate Resolution 17, Oklahoma's Senate Bill 393 and Texas's House
Bill 1485. Since 2014, at least 60 "academic freedom" bills - which permit
teachers to paint established science as controversial - have been filed in
state legislatures all over the country.. There was strong opposition to the
South Dakota bill from the science and education communities. Washington
Post
