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Update: Knox County School Board Shows BESE How to Conduct Public Policy
By Barbara Forrest In April, Kurt Zimmermann, parent of a student at Farragut High School in Tennessee, asked the Knox County, Tennessee, School Board to remove his son’s honors biology textbook,...
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Gene Mills Says Credit Goes to . . . Jesus!
“This bill is not about teaching creationism or religion.” — Rev. Gene Mills, Louisiana Family Forum Hammond Daily Star, 4/11/08 Update 6/1/10: The photo above is linked to Focus on the Family’s...
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Finally — a book explaining evolution to Christian teens
By Barbara Forrest Christian teenagers whose families and churches have repeatedly told them that evolutionary theory is evil often find themselves deeply conflicted when they finally see how...
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It’s Thanksgiving — give thanks where it is due — and then act!
Request to Louisiana readers: If you like the posts on this website, please consider sharing them with as many people as possible, including your elected officials, science teacher friends, school...
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Open letter to BESE from a member of the Louisiana Life Sciences Textbook...
By Barbara Forrest In keeping with the November 20 post highlighting Louisiana citizens who have stepped forward to protect science education in our public schools, this post will give a voice to a...
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The students won in Louisiana today . . . and again! (Update 12/9/10)
By Barbara Forrest UPDATE December 9, 2010, 12:45 p.m. CST — The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education just voted to accept the December 7 approval of the biology textbooks by the Student/School...
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(UPDATED) Another creationist “academic freedom” bill bites the dust:...
By Barbara Forrest UPDATE (March 5, 2011): The National Center for Science Education reports that the second creationist bill in Oklahoma, SB 554, appears to have died in committee. SB 554, a hybrid...
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The Gutting of BESE’s LSEA Implementation Policy: The Untold Story of...
By Barbara Forrest Let’s begin 2012 by looking back three years to January 13, 2009. That is when the Louisiana Family Forum (LFF) persuaded the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) to...
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