One of my keyword searches alerted me to this post about the intelligent design debate and offered a quote by Joe Wolf, president of Florida Citizens for Science from an Orlando Sentinel article:

Joe Wolf, president of Florida Citizens for Science, called the draft standards a “wonderful” blueprint for science education. Wolf, of Winter Haven, said the evolution debate holds little interest to most scientists, who accept it as fact. That’s why the issue did not become controversial during the standards-writing meetings, he said.

“It’s a PR issue,” he said. “And it’s a religious issue. In the scientific community, it’s not an issue.”

Joe is from Winter Haven. A Google search for his name shows a number of results, one of which is the FCS web site. The main purpose of the group according to their site:

Florida's economic future depends upon providing our children with the best education that modern scientific instruction can offer. Florida has major investments in medicine, biotechnology, space technology and other fields. We compete with our sister states for employers in these fields. It's critical to support our future success by investing in our educational system in the present.

The current hot-topic issue is the revision of the science standards for public schools...this of course leads to the debate over intelligent design.

Joe was recently interviewed by the SPTimes gradebook blog. (Hat tip: Chuck)