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Georgia Schools Allow Alternative Origins Theories

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Published November 26, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

The Cobb County, Georgia school board approves a policy that allows science teachers to discuss other theories of human origins, in addition to evolution. Teachers await the new rules, which will spell out exactly what they can teach. Susanna Capelouto reports.

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