{"id":385015,"date":"2010-03-03T13:53:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T18:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78222"},"modified":"2010-03-03T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T18:53:33","slug":"why-the-texas-board-of-education-results-were-good-%e2%80%94-but-not-great-%e2%80%94-news-for-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/385015","title":{"rendered":"Why the Texas Board of Education Results Were Good \u2014 but Not Great \u2014 News for Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good: Because Don McLeroy &#8212; the guy who, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/14\/magazine\/14texbooks-t.html?pagewanted=all\" >according to The New York Times<\/a>, &#8220;identifies himself as a young-earth creationist who believes that the earth was created in six days, as the book of Genesis has it, less than 10,000 years ago&#8221; &#8212; will <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/78211\/right-wing-activists-lose-seats-on-texas-board-of-education\" >no longer have voting power<\/a> to dictate the content of the state&#8217;s public school textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>Not Great: Because McLeroy&#8217;s challenger, Republican Thomas Ratcliff, won with just 50.5 percent of the vote &#8212; a razor-thin margin indicating that roughly half of the district wanted McLeroy to remain.<\/p>\n<p>Is there any wonder that American kids <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/story?id=94793&amp;page=1\" >are so far behind<\/a> the rest of the developed world in science?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good: Because Don McLeroy &#8212; the guy who, according to The New York Times, &#8220;identifies himself as a young-earth creationist who believes that the earth was created in six days, as the book of Genesis has it, less than 10,000 years ago&#8221; &#8212; will no longer have voting power to dictate the content of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}