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MO HB179
Bill
Status
1/16/2013
Primary Sponsor
Andrew Koenig
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AI Summary
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State Board of Education and school officials must create an environment encouraging students to explore scientific questions, develop critical thinking skills, and respectfully discuss controversial issues including biological and chemical evolution
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Teachers are permitted to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and weaknesses of biological and chemical evolution theory
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School boards, superintendents, and administrators are prohibited from preventing teachers from analyzing scientific strengths and weaknesses of evolution when taught in the curriculum
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The law protects only the teaching of scientific information and explicitly prohibits promoting or discriminating against any theistic or nontheistic religious doctrine or beliefs
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By the start of the 2014-15 school year, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education must notify all public school superintendents of these provisions, with superintendents required to distribute this information to all employees
Legislative Description
Specifies that the State Board of Education and other public school entities must encourage students to explore scientific questions and assist teaching strengths and weakneses of scientific theories of biological or chemical evolution
Last Action
Referred: Rules(H)
3/6/2013