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Portland public schools ban textbooks that cast doubt on climate change
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Posted on 05/22/2016 9:03:44 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Portland public schools ban textbooks that cast doubt on climate change | Fox News

The Portland Public Schools board voted last week to ban any materials that cast doubt on climate change, the Portland Tribune reported.

According to the resolution passed May 17, the school district must remove any textbooks and other materials that suggest climate change is not occurring or that says human beings are not responsible for it.

“A lot of the text materials are kind of thick with the language of doubt, and obviously the science says otherwise,” said Bill Bigelow, a former Portland public school teacher who worked to present the resolution. Bigelow says textbook publishers are yielding to pressure from fossil fuels companies. “We don’t want kids in Portland learning material courtesy of the fossil fuel industry.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: academicbias; billbigelow; climate; climatechange; deniers; education; epa; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; oregon; popefrancis; portland; portlandia; publicschools; romancatholicism; textbookbias
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To: eyeamok

Not fraud, treason. And some humiliating form of execution, along with turning their house into a public toilet, seems more appropriate than felony prosecution.


41 posted on 05/22/2016 8:14:47 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Sub-Driver

How communist of the left. The supposed inclusive diverse people lovers.


42 posted on 05/22/2016 9:26:00 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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