1.   The report also said science teaching standards in the early secondary years lagged behind other subjects.

2.   And this year, the science standards are causing much discussion, at least among the science faculty.

3.   Bill Wagnon, a Topeka, Kan., Democrat who voted in August against the science standards, said he planned to run for re-election.

4.   According to the recently released science standards, for example, fourth-grade students are expected to have a basic understanding of the properties of objects and materials.

5.   After hearing national reports about the new science standards, the board of the foundation publishing the book thought some Kansans might take issue with those topics.

6.   All the Democrats, including incumbent Bill Wagnon of Topeka, have said they want to rescind the new science standards in favor of those written by science teachers.

7.   Changing the science standards spoke to issues of quality education, freedom of speech and the separation of church and state, Neas said.

8.   Conservatives won a major victory in Kansas on Wednesday when the state Board of Education approved new science standards that dilute the teaching of evolution.

9.   Conservatives counter that the vote on science standards was more about academic freedom than evolution, the theory that living things share common ancestors but have changed over time.

10.   Debate over the science standards has simmered in the state since May.