http://www.au.org/site/News2?abbr=pr&p...76by215j1.app5b
A bill approved yesterday by a Louisiana legislative panel brings religion into science classrooms and undercuts fundamental constitutional principles, according to Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
The House Education Committee unanimously approved Senate Bill 733, a measure that allows public school teachers to use supplementary materials when teaching about evolution.
Full Version: Louisiana Takes Step Backward, of course...
Supplementary materials.... You mean like Bibles? Or those books that "prove" that the Grand Canyon was created sometime during the Coolidge administration?
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AN ACT
To enact R.S. 17:285.1, relative to curriculum and instruction; to provide relative to the
teaching of scientific subjects in public elementary and secondary schools; to
promote students' critical thinking skills and open discussion of scientific theories;
to provide relative to support and guidance for teachers; to provide relative to
textbooks and instructional materials; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide
for effectiveness; and to provide for related matters.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
Section 1. R.S. 17:285.1 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
§285.1. Science education; development of critical thinking skills
A. This Section shall be known and may be cited as the "Louisiana
Science Education Act."
B.(1) The State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, upon
request of a city, parish, or other local public school board, shall allow and
assist teachers, principals, and other school administrators to create and foster
an environment within public elementary and secondary schools that promotes
critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of
scientific theories being studied including, but not limited to, evolution, the
origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.
(2) Such assistance shall include support and guidance for teachers
regarding effective ways to help students understand, analyze, critique, and
objectively review scientific theories being studied, including those enumerated
in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection.
C. A teacher shall teach the material presented in the standard textbook
supplied by the school system and thereafter may use supplemental textbooks
and other instructional materials to help students understand, analyze, critique,
and review scientific theories in an objective manner, as permitted by the city,
parish, or other local public school board.
D. This Section shall not be construed to promote any religious doctrine,
promote discrimination for or against a particular set of religious beliefs, or
promote discrimination for or against religion or nonreligion.
To enact R.S. 17:285.1, relative to curriculum and instruction; to provide relative to the
teaching of scientific subjects in public elementary and secondary schools; to
promote students' critical thinking skills and open discussion of scientific theories;
to provide relative to support and guidance for teachers; to provide relative to
textbooks and instructional materials; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide
for effectiveness; and to provide for related matters.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
Section 1. R.S. 17:285.1 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
§285.1. Science education; development of critical thinking skills
A. This Section shall be known and may be cited as the "Louisiana
Science Education Act."
B.(1) The State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, upon
request of a city, parish, or other local public school board, shall allow and
assist teachers, principals, and other school administrators to create and foster
an environment within public elementary and secondary schools that promotes
critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of
scientific theories being studied including, but not limited to, evolution, the
origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.
(2) Such assistance shall include support and guidance for teachers
regarding effective ways to help students understand, analyze, critique, and
objectively review scientific theories being studied, including those enumerated
in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection.
C. A teacher shall teach the material presented in the standard textbook
supplied by the school system and thereafter may use supplemental textbooks
and other instructional materials to help students understand, analyze, critique,
and review scientific theories in an objective manner, as permitted by the city,
parish, or other local public school board.
D. This Section shall not be construed to promote any religious doctrine,
promote discrimination for or against a particular set of religious beliefs, or
promote discrimination for or against religion or nonreligion.
This is a copy of the actual bill from HERE
QUOTE (known2b @ May 22 2008, 01:36 PM) 
This is a copy of the actual bill from HERE
it is an obvious attempt to get creationism in the classroom under a different name...
i take the word of AU on this, they have done the research, if they are in opposition to it, then it is bad and unconstitutional
QUOTE (Tyo @ May 22 2008, 12:31 PM)
Supplementary materials.... You mean like Bibles? Or those books that "prove" that the Grand Canyon was created sometime during the Coolidge administration?
batman
Creationism Goes Mainstream In Louisiana
All that now stands in the way of legislation, passed with the help of Democrats, that would allow the teaching of creationism in the Lousiana public schools is an unlikely veto by Republican Governor Bobby Jindal
While we mull that over, Barbara Forrest, one of the nation's leading experts on the knavery that is "intelligent design," has posted at Talk to Action a discussion of the role of the Religious Right's Discovery Institute and Focus on the Family's state political affiliate in the passage of the bill, and how these organizations have apparently cowed or owned political leaders of both parties.
Yes, that's right. No courageous Democratic speaking out against this travesty anywhere in the state. Perhaps they will wait for public spirited organizations like the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State to file the federal lawsuit that will inevitably prevail. The teaching of creationism and intelligent design as science in the public schools have already been found to be unconstitutional.
Read Barbara Forrest's whole story here.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/26/22.../171/442/542646
All that now stands in the way of legislation, passed with the help of Democrats, that would allow the teaching of creationism in the Lousiana public schools is an unlikely veto by Republican Governor Bobby Jindal
While we mull that over, Barbara Forrest, one of the nation's leading experts on the knavery that is "intelligent design," has posted at Talk to Action a discussion of the role of the Religious Right's Discovery Institute and Focus on the Family's state political affiliate in the passage of the bill, and how these organizations have apparently cowed or owned political leaders of both parties.
Yes, that's right. No courageous Democratic speaking out against this travesty anywhere in the state. Perhaps they will wait for public spirited organizations like the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State to file the federal lawsuit that will inevitably prevail. The teaching of creationism and intelligent design as science in the public schools have already been found to be unconstitutional.
Read Barbara Forrest's whole story here.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/26/22.../171/442/542646
QUOTE (plodder @ Jun 27 2008, 02:19 AM)
Creationism Goes Mainstream In Louisiana
All that now stands in the way of legislation, passed with the help of Democrats, that would allow the teaching of creationism in the Lousiana public schools is an unlikely veto by Republican Governor Bobby Jindal
All that now stands in the way of legislation, passed with the help of Democrats, that would allow the teaching of creationism in the Lousiana public schools is an unlikely veto by Republican Governor Bobby Jindal
There is something desperately wrong with him. He needs to be 5150'd, a danger to himself and others.
Stephanie Grace notes, vis-a-vis the national scene, Jindal watches goodwill evaporate over the creationism's-nose-in-the-tent "Louisiana Science Education Act," signed into law by Gov. Bobby last week.
Recapping Jindal's appearance on "Meet the Press," in which he refused to say whether or not he personally believed in Charles Darwin's theory, but signed a law degrading its teaching because he wants students exposed to "the very best science," Grace concludes:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/29/84817/9787
Recapping Jindal's appearance on "Meet the Press," in which he refused to say whether or not he personally believed in Charles Darwin's theory, but signed a law degrading its teaching because he wants students exposed to "the very best science," Grace concludes:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/29/84817/9787
QUOTE (plodder @ Jun 29 2008, 02:42 PM)
Stephanie Grace notes, vis-a-vis the national scene, Jindal watches goodwill evaporate over the creationism's-nose-in-the-tent "Louisiana Science Education Act," signed into law by Gov. Bobby last week.
Recapping Jindal's appearance on "Meet the Press," in which he refused to say whether or not he personally believed in Charles Darwin's theory, but signed a law degrading its teaching because he wants students exposed to "the very best science," Grace concludes:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/29/84817/9787
Recapping Jindal's appearance on "Meet the Press," in which he refused to say whether or not he personally believed in Charles Darwin's theory, but signed a law degrading its teaching because he wants students exposed to "the very best science," Grace concludes:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/29/84817/9787
Another reason I hope McCain picks Jindal for Veep.
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