On February 13, 2007, the board voted 6-4 to reject the amended science standards enacted in 2005.

In 2009, the Board received criticism from more than fifty scientific organizations over an attempt to weaken science standards on evolution.

One of the new science standards, for example, calls for students to pursue their own inquiry.

They were able to convince one state board member to switch sides and vote in favor of the creationist science standards.

Control of the Kansas school board has been in flux since 1998 with science standards changing to match the majority view.

These will include engineering-based standards embedded within the science standards.

Biologists, chemists and physicists should set the science standards for our country.

It also tied into first-grade science standards, which require lessons about nutrition, she said.

If the moderates succeed, they could erase the new science standards before state tests based on them are ever administered.

Groups of educators, scientists and others drafted science standards that reflected evolution's central place in biology.