In typical politician squirrelly speak, the issue of intelligent design slipping into the classroom was deferred. But the very fact that it was even mentioned in this story makes me nervous. I guess it’s way too much to ask of a politician to just say, “ID isn’t science. Next question.”
TALLAHASSEE — After months of meetings and hype, the incoming leaders of the Florida House began Wednesday to unveil a series of initiatives they intend to pursue while in office.
State Rep. Marco Rubio, R-Miami, who will be sworn in as House speaker next week, and his expected successors outlined an initial 20 entries from the book that Rubio has dubbed “100 Innovative Ideas for Florida’s Future.”
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On creating a “world-class curriculum,” for instance, Rubio sidestepped questions about whether that should include teaching intelligent design as a competing theory to evolution or whether it should mean longer school days or years.
He said those decisions should be left up to education experts and business leaders, who can tell government what kind of training students need.
