TOPEKA, Kan. – In a move that seems designed to make Common Core a major issue in an election year, conservative Republicans have re-introduced legislation to scrap the nationalized math and English standards and replace them with standards that are unique to Kansas.

The legislation – House Bill 2621 – would also kill off the new Common Core-related science standards that the Kansas State Board of Education adopted last summer, CJOnline.com reports. They’re known as Next Generation Science Standards, and many conservatives disapprove of them because they introduce the theory of evolution to students beginning in the second grade.

The Kansas Legislature will consider that anti-Common Core bill, though lawmakers defeated a similar bill last year, the Associated Press notes.

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HB 2621 isn’t a complete reprisal of last year’s bill. This new legislation covers some new ground, including new privacy protections for students’ personal information.

According to CJOnline.com:

“(This year’s bill) bans the Kansas school system from collecting and delivering certain data about students to federal agencies and other institutions. That includes biometric data, such as students’ DNA sequences and their retina patterns.

“It also blocks the Kansas State Department of Education and schools from administering tests to students to collect information about their personal attitudes and mindsets and from collecting longitudinal data about students that extends beyond high school.”

Those provisions are designed to appease Common Core critics who believe one of the overarching goals of the nationalized standards is to create apples-to-apple student data that K-12 technology companies can use to create personalized learning software.

Proponents of personalized learning believe it could revolutionize the learning process and re-establish America as a global leader in education. Critics fear it will create too much student-specific data that could end up in the hands of Washington D.C. bureaucrats for nefarious purposes.

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Like the previous repeal attempt, this new attempt to render Common Core “null and void” likely won’t reach Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s desk for his signature. And even if it should, it’s not clear if Brownback would sign the bill into law.

The wildcard in all this is the November election. Perhaps Common Core opponents believe they can build enough political pressure on lawmakers and the governor to get this legislation across the finish line this year.

At the very least, they seem determined to keep Common Core in front of voters in hopes that additional like-minded lawmakers will be elected in the fall for yet another repeal effort in 2015.