Important Votes: All "Yes" votes are good votes. Please contact your legislator. Either thank them or express disappointment with their vote. Thank other legislators who voted yes to all three.

Vote 1: The Buesgens amendment would have restored substantive changes that were taken out when creating the "third draft" so that the document could go into conference committee as strong as possible. This vote failed by 32 to 98. All DFLers voted against it, as did over half of the Republicans.

Vote 2: The social studies standards bill - the third draft - as introduced by Representative Barb Sykora. This is a good vote, because although the Buesgen's amendment would have made needed positive changes, the Sykora "third draft" is still an improvement over the Profile of Learning. This bill passed - 73 to 55.

Vote 3: The Otremba amendment addressed the Science minority report. It instructs teachers to teach the full range of scientific controversy over evolution in the science standards. This bill pass 86 to 45 - by a nearly two to one margin.