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Wisconsin
A pair of "Campus Free Speech Acts," Assembly Bill 299 and Senate Bill 250, died in the Wisconsin legislature on March 28, 2018, when they failed to meet a deadline.
The bills in question would have required the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin system to adopt a policy on free…
Louisiana
Senate Resolution 33 (PDF), introduced in the Louisiana Senate on March 20, 2018, would, if passed, commend a former state senator "on his support and endorsement of teaching creationism in public schools."
The resolution would honor Bill Keith, who sponsored Louisiana's Balanced Treatment for…
Idaho
Idaho's House Concurrent Resolution 60 (PDF), introduced by the House Education Committee on March 12, 2018, would, if enacted, delete a single standard — ESS 3-4-1 — from the proposed science standards currently under legislative review.
ESS 3-4-1 explicitly mentions environmental impacts…
Florida
When the Florida legislature adjourned sine die on March 11, 2018, two pairs of bills that would, in their different ways, have undermined the integrity of science education in the Sunshine State died.
House Bill 827 and Senate Bill 1644 would have revised the procedures for adopting…
Iowa
Iowa's House File 2317, which if enacted would have reversed the state's adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards in 2005, died on February 16, 2018, when a deadline for bills to pass committee in their house of origin passed.
In addition to undoing the adoption of the NGSS,…