Dive Brief:

• After legislatively banning the Next Generation Science Standards, Wyoming is calling on community volunteers to help decide what students in the state should be required to learn in science classes.  
• Despite being recommended by the National Research Council and about 30 Wyoming teachers and administrators, the Next Generation Science Standards were banned due to their teaching of man-made climate change as fact.  
• During the committee meetings to discuss new standards, members can bring any proposals to the table except those containing parts of the Next Generation Science Standards.  A state department of education standards supervisor, Laurie Hernandez, says she will have to, as a facilitator, block discussion of any such proposals.  

Dive Insight:

As of late Tuesday, 30 people have filled out the state's online volunteer form in the hopes of joining the committee to decide the state's science standards.  It is unclear if only the parts of the NGSS containing man-made climate change are off the table or the standards themselves entirely. The rejected standards were created over the course of several years, as opposed to Wyoming's current attempt to create new K-12 science standards over the course of a summer.