Kansas hearings to end

JOHN HANNA
Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. - He doesn't think he'll persuade the State Board of
Education to keep evolution-friendly science standards, but a Topeka
attorney still is trying to make a case for them.


A board subcommittee was to wrap up hearings Thursday on how evolution
should be taught in public schools. The entire board plans to consider
proposed changes by August in standards that determine how students
are tested on science.


Pedro Irigonegaray, a Topeka attorney defending proposed standards
that would continue to describe evolution as a key concept for
students to learn, said Wednesday that the hearings were "simply an
outrage."


"The people of the state of Kansas should be outraged by what's
happened here and the waste of money that this represents,"
Irigonegaray said.


The hearings are expected to cost the board at least $17,000, a figure
that includes $5,000 to cover some expenses for nearly two dozen
witnesses called by intelligent design advocates over three days last
week.


Kansas.com