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1 nines09  Feb 28, 2015 8:28:46am

The legacy of the Republican Party will not be pretty or respected. To be ignorant is one thing. To insist ignorance for all is suicide as a society. Why can’t Johnny read? Stupifying.

2 Fred72  Feb 28, 2015 10:16:00am

Note that the bill PDF linked in the article is the wrong one — that one seems fairly innocuous (but you never know).

The actual “Oklahoma Science Education Act” bill is 1765, and it’s here and it’s scary:

http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2013-14%20INT/SB/SB1765%20INT.PDF

3 palmerskiss  Feb 28, 2015 10:16:02am

wow maybe now Oklahoma can focus on giving their children an education - something they have not adequately managed up to this point:

Assessments > % of Students Above Advanced > Grade 4 Math 2% [45th of 51]
Assessments > % of Students Above Basic > Grade 4 Reading 60% [38th of 51]
Assessments > % of Students Above Proficient > Grade 8 Writing 27% [23rd of 42]
Assessments > Scale Score, Grade 4 Math 234 [36th of 51]
Assessments > Scale Score, Grade 4 Reading 214 [38th of 51]
Assessments > Scale Score, Grade 8 Math 271 [41st of 51]
Assessments > Scale Score, Grade 8 Writing 150 [24th of 42]
Bachelor’s degree or higher, by percentage 22.9% [43rd of 51]
Best Educated Index -7.74 [39th of 50]
Elementary & Secondary > Free Lunch Eligible 265,952 [20th of 46]
Elementary & Secondary > Pupil/Teacher Ratio 16 students per teacher [17th of 51]
Elementary & Secondary > Total Students- Black, non-Hispanic 68,315 [25th of 50]
Elementary & Secondary Finance > Current Expenditures $3,804,570,361.00 [29th of 51]
High school diploma or higher, by percentage 85.2% [37th of 51]
Percent of People Who Have Completed a Bachelor’s Degree 22.2 % [43rd of 51]
Percent of People Who Have Completed an Advanced Degree 7 % [46th of 51]
Postsecondary > Degrees Awarded > Bachelors 17,424 [28th of 51]
Postsecondary > Degrees Awarded > Masters 5,607 [30th of 51]
Public Libraries > Library Visits per Capita 4.8 [20th of 51]
Public Libraries > Number of Bookmobiles 1 [50th of 50]

those statistics are shameful!

4 Shiplord Kirel  Feb 28, 2015 12:07:38pm

For a split second of senior confusion I thought “Anti-Science Bill” might be a person, sort of an evil RWNJ twin to Bill Nye.
Destructive ideas or destructive people, it’s still good news when they’re dead.


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