You are hereZack Kopplin on Bill Moyers
 Zack KopplinZack Kopplin, the young activist behind the initiative to repeal Louisiana's antievolution law and the effort to expose the funding of creationism through vouchers-for-private-schools schemes nationally, was interviewed on Moyers and Company — and the segment is now viewable on line. Antiscience bill dies in Indiana
 Indiana's House Bill 1283 died on February 25, 2013, when the deadline for House bills to have their third reading in the House passed. Antiscience bill dies in Arizona
 Arizona's Senate Bill 1213 died on February 22, 2013, when the deadline for Senate bills to be heard in their Senate committees passed. Antiscience bill dies in Oklahoma
 Senate Bill 758 (document), the so-called Oklahoma Science Education Act, which would have undermined the integrity of science education in the Sooner State, is dead. A Missouri amendment in Virginia?
 Would a proposed amendment to the Virginia state constitution have undermined the teaching of evolution in the state's public schools? Kopplin profiled in the Houston Press
Zack KopplinZack Kopplin, the young activist behind the initiative to repeal Louisiana's antievolution law and the effort to expose the funding of creationism through vouchers-for-private-schools schemes nationally, was profiled in the Houston Press (February 20, 2013). Missouri's "intelligent design" bill under scrutiny
 Missouri's House Bill 291, which would, if enacted, require "the equal treatment of science instruction regarding evolution and intelligent design," is receiving renewed attention. Montana's antievolution bill tabled
 Montana's House Bill 183, which purports to "encourage critical thinking regarding controversial scientific theories" such as "biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, random mutation, natural selection, DNA, and fossil discoveries," was tabled in the House Education Committee on February 5, 2013. Antiscience bill in Colorado fails
 House Bill 13-1089 (PDF), which would have encouraged teachers in Colorado to misrepresent the scientific status of evolution and climate change, was rejected by a 7-6 vote in the House Committee on Education on February 4, 2013. Darwin Day in The New York Times
 "Two congressmen, two Christians and two very different views of the man who in 1859 published 'On the Origin of Species,'" writes Mark Oppenheimer in The New York Times (February 1, 2013). Pages
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