Utah’s science standards will be updated — despite concerns over what students will learn about evolution, climate change and humans being ‘like pigs’

(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) Eleventh graders make glass slides and count Paramecium through microscopes in biology class on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at Salt Lake Center for Science Education.

Utah’s science standards will be updated — despite concerns over what students will learn about evolution, climate change and humans being ‘like pigs’

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