Agosto is playing for time. Praises energy on both sides. Says he's open-minded. Willing to listen to everyone.
He's the swing vote. Everyone's hanging on his every word.
"I echo Bradley's comments," about the amount of commentary, but will vote against the amendment. Standards are good, well-written, he'll listen to the experts.
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Berlanga and Nuñez voted against the final TEKS, the other 13 voted to approve them. Texas has new science standards. Those standards are better than the old ones, but those old standards really did suck.
Forget those visions of holy virgins or Mother Teresa in a bun or Jesus in a chalupa—guess who
Some dude who cut in line, science prof.: Keep the language unchanged. How many conformists got patents or Nobel Prizes? Key element of college readiness is crit. thinking. Quote Nietzsche, to no clear end. Campbell and Reece disparages anything but evolution.
Terri Leo just offered an amendment to add a standard to Biology 9:
D) analyze and evaluate the evidence regarding formation of simple organic molecules and their organization into long complex molecules having information such as the DNA molecule for self-replicating life.