TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 2 - Less than a year after the Kansas Board of Education adopted science standards challenging Darwin's theory of evolution with a requirement to teach the creation myth, voters on Tuesday ousted the conservative majority on the board that favored those guidelines.
Several of the winners in the primary election, whose victories are virtually certain to shift the board to a science-based majority in November, promised Wednesday to work swiftly to restore a science curriculum that does not subject evolution to critical attack.
"Kansas science education will no longer be the laughing stock of the world because of mis-guided faith-based conservatives"