In the end, voters here said they were tired of being portrayed as a northern version of Dayton, Tenn., a Bible Belt hamlet where 80 years ago a biology teacher named John Scopes was tried for illegally teaching evolution.
On Tuesday, the residents of Dover ousted all eight school board members running for re-election who had put their town in a global spotlight and their school district on trial for being the first in the nation to introduce intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in science class. In swept the full Dover Cares slate of eight candidates, which had coalesced to oppose the change in the science curriculum.
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Intelligent Voters Design a New School Board
More good, unprecedented news. In Dover, PA, voters replaced an entire school board with smarter new members. See also Neddie Jingo's post regarding the vote.
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