ID State Senate Panel Votes 6-3 To Retain All Global Warming Content In State Science Standards
An Idaho Senate panel voted to retain all references to man-made climate change in proposed science standards for K-12 education, which could end a three-year fight over the rules. The state Senate Education Committee voted 6 to 3 Thursday to adopt the proposed science standards as-is – without axing references to climate change.
State Sen. Janie Ward-Engelking (D-Boise), a former teacher herself, made the motion. She says legislators need to trust the committee that took two years to draft these new standards.
“It’s very important, I think, to recognize that these are the professionals of our field writing these standards and content and it’s very important that we adopt them in their entirety,” Ward-Engelking says.
State Sen. Carl Crabtree (R-Grangeville) agrees, saying the process that produced the proposal needs to be respected. “That process, folks, in my view, is kind of the American process of success and if we don’t believe in that process then we probably don’t like the product,” says Crabtree. “I believe in the process.”
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