A 2000 poll from People for the American Way found that 66 percent of respondents say the issue of whether to teach evolution in public schools is too important to leave to individual localities to decide and say they favor a national approach.

Read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article on the ruling against ‘intelligent design’ in science class.

Read a New York Times story on the federal judge’s ruling of ‘intelligent design’ as “unconstitutional” to be taught in high school science classes due to it’s connection to “a particular version of christianity.”

Read an Associated Press article about Judge John E. Jones’ decision to ban ‘intelligent design’ from the school’s biology curriculum.

Read the Fordham Foundation’s 2000 report “Good Science, Bad Science: Teaching Evolution in the States,” which includes a state-by-state grading of science education in the public schools.

Read the American Civil Liberties Union’s lawsuit filed on behalf of parents in Dover, Pa.

Joan Schaffner is an associate professor of law at George Washington University School of Law in Washington, D.C., where she directs the GW Animal Law Program which consists of the GW Animal Welfare Project (AWP), a pro bono effort of faculty and students devoted to researching and improving animal welfare laws in the District of […]

Valerie Stanley is an adjunct professor teaching animal law at the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore, Md. She previously served as the senior staff attorney at the Animal Legal Defense Fund.

Steven Wise is the president of the Coral Springs, Fla., based Nonhuman Rights Project which works toward achieving legal rights for species other than humans. Wise has taught animal rights law at Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, John Marshall Law School and St. Thomas Law School. He is the author of several books, including Drawing […]