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Texas
Stand on the Congress Avenue Bridge in the evening, and you can watch millions of bats set forth across the Austin, Texas sky, freeing the city of mosquitoes. Walk north, and you’re surrounded by live music. Keep going until you reach the state capitol building, carved from native granite. Ponder…
Pennsylvania
Writing in the Erie, Pennsylvania, Times-News (September 18, 2013), Barbara Forrest warned Pennsylvanians about the threatened antiscience bill in their state. As NCSE previously reported, in August 2013, Stephen Bloom (R-District 199) was circulating a memo seeking cosponsors for a proposed bill…
Michigan
House Bill 4972, introduced in the Michigan House of Representatives on September 12, 2013, would, if enacted, require that "[t]he state board model core academic curriculum standards shall not be based on the Next Generation Science Standards." Additionally, it would prohibit the state board of…
Ohio
Seventy percent of Ohioans accept that global warming is happening, according to a new report (PDF) from the Yale Project on Climate Communication. But slightly less than half accept that human activity is responsible for global warming, and slightly less than half deny that there is a…
Texas
This is what I told the Texas board of education just minutes ago. As a reminder, NCSE's ability to represent your voice in hearings depends on your donations.
Madame Chair, members of the board,
My name is Josh Rosenau. On my own behalf and that of the National Center for Science Education and…