On November 8, 2005 the Kansas Board of Education approved the following changes to its science standards:
Add to the mission statement a goal that science education should seek to help students make "informed" decisions.
Provide a definition of science that is not strictly limited to natural explanations. We also emphasize that the Science Curriculum Standards do not include Intelligent Design, the scientific disagreement with the claim of many evolutionary biologists that the apparent design of living systems is an illusion. While the testimony presented at the science hearings included many advocates of Intelligent Design, these standards neither mandate nor prohibit teaching about this scientific disagreement.[13][a]
Allow intelligent design to be presented as an alternative explanation to evolution as presented in mainstream biology textbooks, without endorsing it.
State that evolution is a theory and not a fact.
Require informing students of purported scientific controversies regarding evolution.