National lab scientists assail state education proposal

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Dozens of scientists and engineers at a national nuclear weapons laboratory in New Mexico are voicing disagreement with public school science standards proposed by the state, cautioning that the guidelines could weaken the study of climate change, evolution and earth sciences.
Sixty-one senior technical staff at Los Alamos National Laboratory wrote to the New Mexico Department of Education to express their disagreement with the standards, publishing the