Pat Hayes has an update on the proposed changes in the Kansas science curriculum. It's back to the future for Kansans. I have no doubt that Jack Krebs, Liz Craig and the rest of the great folks at Kansas Citizens for Science will work tirelessly to prevent this absurd rewriting of those standards as they did in 1999.
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