intelligent design freak up for job as head of Natl. Edu. Assoc.

[donsu]

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/05/19/19edboard.html


Evolution opponent is in line for schools post

Kansas school board member who supports intelligent design might be next leader of national education association.


The National Association of State Boards of Education will elect officers in July, and for one office, president-elect, there is only one candidate: a member of the Kansas school board who supported its efforts against the teaching of evolution.

Scientists who have been active in the nation's evolution debate say they want to thwart his candidacy, but it is not clear if they can.

The candidate is Kenneth Willard, a Kansas Republican who voted with the conservative majority in 2005 when the school board changed the state's science standards to allow inclusion of intelligent design, an ideological cousin of creationism. Voters later replaced that majority, but Willard, an insurance executive from Hutchinson, retained his seat.

The group, based in Washington, is a nonprofit organization of state school boards whose Web site says it "works to strengthen state leadership in educational policymaking."

Brenda Welburn, its executive director, said Willard's only opponent in the race withdrew for personal reasons. Each state has one vote in the election.

Some scientists hope that when states submit their votes, they will write in someone else.

One possible candidate is Sam Schloemer, a retired businessman from Cincinnati who won a seat on the Ohio board last November with the help of scientists who organized to defeat creationist candidates.
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what the religiously insane and the neo cons have done to our school system is sickening.

there will be violence

[theoldman]

1. Don't worry, Kansas will come around in another 100 years.

[la la]

2. The article and headline are misleading--

not your fault, donsu- the information there is misleading. THE National Education Association is not made up of school board members. The reporter needs to get his facts straight.

[donsu]

3. kicking back to first page

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