Kansas State Department Board of Education (KSDE) is Kansas's

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, headquartered in Topeka.Welcome to KSDE
" Kansas State Department of Education. Retrieved on October 25, 2009. The board of education that controls the department is a constitutional body established in Article 6 of the Kansas Constitution. The ten members of the Board of Education are each elected to four-year terms. The Board helps determine educational policy for the state's

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and

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schools. The Kansas State Board of Education was created to replace the position of Kansas State Superintendent of Public Instruction effective January 14, 1969, pursuant to an amendment to the Kansas Constitution adopted November 8, 1966.

Intelligent design controversy

There has been a

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regarding the status of creationism and evolution in the Kansas public education system. In 1999, the Board ruled that instruction about evolution, the

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, and the origin of the universe was permitted, but not mandatory, and that those topics would not appear on

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s. The board relied heavily on

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material in constructing science standards that minimized the tuition of evolution.''The Christian Right in American Politics'', John Clifford Green, Mark J. Rozell, Clyde Wilcox, p 157 However, the Board reversed this decision February 14, 2001, ruling that instruction of all those topics was mandatory and that they would appear on standardized tests. Then on August 9, 2005, the Board approved a draft of science curriculum

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that mandated equal time for the theories of "evolution" and " intelligent design". But on February 13, 2007, the Board voted 6 to 4 to reject the amended science standards enacted in 2005. The definition of science was once again limited to "the search for natural explanations for what is observed in the universe",Evolution of Kansas science standards continues as Darwin's theories regain prominence
/ref> or what is known as " methodological naturalism".

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Kansas School District Boundary Map
KSDE ;KGI Online Library
Kansas State Board of Education Meeting Minutes (1968-present)

Kansas Educational Directory (1941-present)

Kansas Education Accountability Report (2000/01-present)

Other KSDE publications at KGI Online Library
;Controversy
Kansas education board downplays evolution
State school board OKs standards casting doubt on Darwin.

, June 7, 2005 * ttp://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=24965 Kansas board of education scraps standards questioning evolution {{Authority control 1969 establishments in Kansas

Intelligent design controversy

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