Science education issue finally settled in Texas (OneNewsNow.com)

Science education issue finally settled in Texas (OneNewsNow.com): "The Texas State Board of Education has decided overwhelmingly to keep the teaching of scientific strengths and weaknesses, but under a different name.

In early 2009, a preliminary vote was held and the teaching of scientific strengths and weaknesses was removed from curriculum requirements. But Jonathan Saenz of the Free Market Foundation says that decision angered many Texans who then contacted their elected officials.

'Well, it was very clear that the State Board of Education members had been inundated with phone calls and attention and emails asking them to keep the science classroom open for critical discussion and debate on science theories,' he says. 'And that's what they did.'

By a vote of 13-to-2, the Board decided to replace strengths and weakness with the language 'examining all sides of science.'

'It amounts to the same thing,' Saenz explains. 'And that's that students and teachers are going to continue in Texas to have the freedom to discuss all sides of scientific theories.'

The issue will not come up for another vote for ten years."