Monday, December 31, 2012

School board president Thomas Robichaux departs on national wave of anti-creationism support

District 7 residents gave sitting Orleans Parish School Board president Thomas Robichaux only 3,072 votes out of 14,688 cast in November's election. But Robichaux is floating out of office on a national wave of support from anti-creationism advocates, who have sent him over 2,000 emails and faxes praising largely symbolic policy changes he championed that take religion out of science and history classrooms.

MORE: http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2012/12/orleans_parish_school_board_pr_1.html