Texas education board to consider compromise on evolution standards

AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — This week’s State Board of Education debate about high school biology standards and governing how to teach students about the theory of evolution could come down to a single word: evaluate.
At a February meeting, board members took a preliminary vote to modify those curriculum standards, keeping in language that would require students to challenge evolutionary science.
Republican board member Barbara Cargill, who led the charge to keep in the controvers