Cheri Yecke is a batshit insane conservative politician and
creationist. She used to serve on the Virginia State Board of Education, which
is where she came to notice, and later as Virginia’s Deputy Secretary of
Education and Secretary of Education, before assuming the role of Director of
Teacher Quality and Public School Choice at the U.S. Department of Education
for the Bush administration, during which time she was detailed to the White
House as a senior advisor for USA Freedom Corps. She ended up as Commissioner of
Education for the State of Minnesota under Pawlenty (a position later awarded
to the barely less despicable Karen Klinzing),
then as Chancellor of K-12 Education in Florida, and finally as dean ofgraduate programs for Harding University, Arkansas.
She has, in other words, attempted to wreak havoc a lot of places.
For the record we’ll also indict her Minnesotan cronies, in particular DaveEaton and Bill Wenmark.
During her reign as Education Commissioner she advocated the
deliberately Intelligent Design-friendly Teach The Controversy policy in science curricula, citing the infamous creationist Santorum Amendment (though the version that was circulated among the public did not include these
revisions). Her efforts at promoting creationism are duly documented here.
During her Florida time she was most famous for her attempts
to groom her reputation online by hiring the Internet accuracy-watchdog service
ReputationDefender to do the job. They subsequently contacted high-profile biologist Wesley R. Elsberry and requested that he remove a quote from Yecke on the issue of teaching
creationism and intelligent design,
which was not a particularly strategically wise idea for boosting Yecke’s reputation.
Diagnosis: A complete hack with self-awareness like a rock.
A truly dangerous, demonstrably reality-challenged person.
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