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Posted in2023 Legislature

Montana students balk at ‘just the facts’

A string of Helena middle and high school students testified before the Senate Education and Cultural Resources Committee on Monday. They sought to explain how a bill restricting public school science curriculum to “scientific fact” that is “observable and repeatable” would put them at an academic disadvantage and undermine instruction on a host of widely accepted scientific theories.