KY education department OKs new K-12 science standards

WKMS | By Todd Hatton

Published June 14, 2013 at 11:33 AM CDT

The Kentucky Board of Education has approved new science standards for grades K through 12. They must now move through the regulatory process. The Commonwealth is among a coalition of twenty-six states that developed the standards that identify science and engineering content that all students through 12^th grade must master to be prepared for college. Republican State Senator Mike Wilson chairs the Senate Education Committee and the General Assembly’s Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee. He’s expressed concern over what he calls troubling assertions about climate change and evolution. But, Wilson says the science standards will get a fair and impartial hearing from the legislature.

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Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.

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