The Kansas State Board of Education voted to reinstate the mandatory teaching of evolution in public schools. In 1999, the board removed evolution from the state’s science curriculum, prompting a national debate over how to teach human origins. The new standards recommend that teachers tell students that alternative views exist, but they are not scientific.
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