It was just narrowly defeated.
It was either that, or replace all the school buses with short ones.
. . . just guessing, some of the senators knew it would be struck-down (the SCOTUS Dover decision).
How ignorant do you have to be to think that creationism is science. Their idiot god doesn't even know basic, math, biology, geography, science, etc. If it used science, it would have blown up the lab.
When I was in 7th grade, in Massachusetts, I had a science teacher that believed in Creationism. Fortunately, he didn't preach in school.