{"id":8094,"date":"2006-08-02T09:11:40","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T13:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8094.html"},"modified":"2006-08-02T09:11:40","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T13:11:40","slug":"whats-right-with-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/whats-right-with-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s right with Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Less than a year ago, a conservative majority on [tag]Kansas[\/tag]’ State [tag]Board[\/tag] of [tag]Education[\/tag] adopted state [tag]science[\/tag] standards on how to teach modern [tag]biology[\/tag]. Or in Kansas’ case, how to avoid it — the standards adopted by the state board represented the broadest challenge<\/a> to [tag]evolution[\/tag] in the country.<\/p>\n

[tag]Democrats[\/tag] and [tag]moderate[\/tag] [tag]Republicans[\/tag] organized a fierce fight to take back the board and undo the damage. Yesterday, thankfully, they succeeded<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Conservative Republicans who brought international attention to Kansas by approving academic standards calling evolution into question lost control of the state school board in primaries.<\/p>\n

As a result of the vote, board members and candidates who believe evolution is well-supported by evidence will have a 6-4 majority. Evolution skeptics had entered the election with a 6-4 majority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of particular interest was the race against incumbent conservative Connie Morris, who has publicly described evolution as “an age-old fairy tale” and “a nice bedtime story.” Though some east-coast papers didn’t have the results, she lost too.<\/p>\n

It’s an encouraging day for the reality-based community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Less than a year ago, a conservative majority on [tag]Kansas[\/tag]’ State [tag]Board[\/tag] of [tag]Education[\/tag] adopted state [tag]science[\/tag] standards on how to teach modern [tag]biology[\/tag]. Or in Kansas’ case, how to avoid it — the standards adopted by the state board represented the broadest challenge to [tag]evolution[\/tag] in the country. [tag]Democrats[\/tag] and [tag]moderate[\/tag] [tag]Republicans[\/tag] organized a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}