Action needed on Evolution Controversy
Katherine Kelly
The evolution controversy is not over--the below is from the Texas Freedom Network. If the links below don't work, go directly to the Texas Freedom Network website.
"... the Texas Freedom Network has learned that creationists are flooding board members' offices with thousands of e-mails and phone calls critical of evolution. They are demanding that the board reverse course in a final vote next month and require that science classes teach anti-evolution arguments that mainstream scientists debunked long ago.
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"The State Board of Education will meet on March 25-27 to take a final vote on the proposed science curriculum standards. It's important that you take the following actions to ensure that board members vote for standards that put sound science ahead of ideology in our kids' public schools:
1. Tell (Don McLeroy) that you oppose
efforts to water down instruction on evolution in public school science
classes.
- Ask (McLeroy) to vote to adopt the sound
science standards proposed in December by curriculum writing teams made
up of teachers and academics.
- Oppose requiring that students learn phony "weaknesses" of evolution.
SBOE District 9--Dr. Don McLeroy
District Address: 3707 TANGLEWOOD
BRYAN TX 77802
Phone: (979) 255-2538
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Ask (McLeroy) to vote to strip out any amendments approved by
the board in January that undermine instruction on evolution.
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It's best to write (McLeroy) in your own words and send your e-mail to: sboe...@tea.state.tx.us. .....
2. Submit your comments about the proposed standards to the Texas Education Agency. You can read the standards by clicking here. Then scroll down to Proposed Revisions to 19 TAC Chapter 112, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science, Subchapter A, Elementary, Subchapter B, Middle School, and Subchapter C, High School. Send your comments to TEA to this e-mail address: ru...@tea.state.tx.us.
3. Sign up to testify at the State Board of Education's public hearing on the proposed science standards on March 25. For information about how to testify, click here.
To find out how your SBOE member voted in January, and to stay informed on this issue, please click here.