I fear the next wave of attacks will be against the peer review system itself, not public education; this is the stance the Discovery Institute has in fact been advocating all along.
Peer review always has critics, even among real scientists. There's politics in every human institution.
What bothers me is the constant clanging among otherwise intelligent people to accept supernatural explanations at every difficult turn in the road.
The default position of ID is if I can't explain it, Goddidit. It's short attention span science.