With the passage of Senate Concurrent Resolution 140 by both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the Idaho legislature, the Idaho state science standards adopted in 2015 have been definitively rejected. (Previous coverage, including from NCSE, prematurely described the rejection as occurring when the House and Senate Education Committees both voted to reject the standards in early February 2016.)
Although the House and Senate Education Committees were quiet about the content of the standards, instead objecting to the lack of opportunity for public comments, there was reason to think that hostility toward the inclusion of evolution and climate change in the standards played a role in the committees' decisions to reject the new standards, as NCSE previously reported. The old, pre-2015, standards will remain in effect.