GOP lawmakers question ACT exam

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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Some Kentucky lawmakers have expressed concerns about how evolution is taught to high school biology students.

The issue was brought up during a meeting of the Interim Committee on Education in Frankfort. The Independent and the Lexington Herald-Leader report that some Republican lawmakers took issue with questions on an end-of-course biology exam that they said seems to require the teaching of evolution as a fact instead of a theory.

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