“Though the teaching of evolution makes the news when officials propose, as they did in Georgia, that evolution disclaimers be affixed to science textbooks, or that creationism be taught along with evolution in biology classes . . . In districts around the country, even when evolution is in the curriculum it may not be in the classroom, according to researchers who follow the issue.” A New York Times report by Cornelia Dean says in many instances, “Teaching guides and textbooks may meet the approval of biologists, but superintendents or principals discourage teachers from discussing it. Or teachers themselves avoid the topic, fearing protests from fundamentalists in their communities.” Luis Lugo of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life says competition amongst religious groups has politicized the teaching of evolution into “an assault of the secular elite on the values of God-fearing people.” He says that keeps politicians and other authority figures away. “Everybody discovers the wisdom of federalism here very quickly,” he tells Dean. “Leave it at the state or the local level.”