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Oklahoma
Oklahoma's House Bill 1674 (PDF), which would, if enacted, have deprived administrators of the ability to prevent teachers from miseducating students about "scientific controversies," died in the Senate Education Committee on April 3, 2014, when a deadline for House bills to be passed by their…
Louisiana
Louisiana's Senate Bill 70 (PDF). which if enacted would repeal the state's Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act, was rejected on a 5-32 vote by the senate on March 24, 2014, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune (March 24, 2014). Enacted in 1981, the…
Wyoming
The Casper Star-Tribune (March 20, 2014) editorially decried the state legislature's decision to block the adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards as "misguided and irresponsible." As NCSE previously reported, a footnote in Wyoming's budget for 2014 precludes the use of state funds "for…
Missouri
Missouri's House Bill 1472, which would require school districts to allow parents to have their children excused from learning about evolution, was passed by the House Committee on Elementary and Secondary Education on March 12, 2014, after having a public hearing on February 13, 2014.…
Louisiana
There is a settlement in a Louisiana case centering on a sixth-grade teacher's advocacy of creationism. According to a March 14, 2014, press release from the American Civil Liberties Union, "[u]nder the consent decree, the school board must end official prayers during class and school events,…