As I write this, the main vote to re-insert a requirement to teach “strengths and weaknesses” of evolution has failed at the State Board of Education on a 7-7 vote, although some other nutty anti-science amendments to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills requirement have passed. The meeting is ongoing; more on this after we’ve had time to evaluate it.

If you want to listen in, you can hear audio of the meeting at http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/.

You can follow a live blog of the meeting by the pro-science Texas Freedom Network at http://tfnblog.wordpress.com/

This article appears in March 20 • 2009.

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