Science standards rewrite wins support, with evolution tweak

BATON ROUGE - Louisiana's top school board is poised to back a rewrite of the state's science standards for public schools, the first revamp of the teaching benchmarks in two decades.The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education gave preliminary support Tuesday to the standards. They were drawn up by a review committee packed largely with local educators.With a 9-0 vote, a panel of nearly all BESE's members agreed to the standards revisions. But support came only after language was added to re