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Dover School Board, Meet the Voter Backlash…

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The “New York Times has a nice piece summarizing the ousting of 8/9 of the Dover Schoolboard yesterday”:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/national/09dover.html?ex=1289192400&en=0afa2b7119328aa5&ei=5089&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss.
Sounds like some of the new members really intend to do away with this very dangerous decision by their predecessors to inject non-science into the science classroom.

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  3. “It’s going to cost whatever it costs.”
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