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The Kansas state school board Tuesday approved new science standards for public schools that treat both evolution and climate change as key concepts to be taught from kindergarten through the 12th grade.
The science standards in Kansas have been debated about how evolution should be taught. The latest standards were adopted in 2007 and treat evolution as a core scientific concept.
The same political factors blunted criticism of the standards' proposed treatment of climate change as an important concept that should be part to lessons in all grades, rather than treated separately in upper-level high school classes.
Kansas had five different science standard during the 10 years ending in2008. In 1999 and 2005 the board left evolution standards alone.
Still, the bigger debate has been about Kansas adopting standards drafted by multiple states. In 2010, the board too, Common Core standards for reading and math, and some conservative Republican legislators .
The board's public comment session Tuesday lasted about three hours. Several critics saw adopting the new science standards as part of a troubling trend of moving toward multistate standards

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