Dover’s New School Board Prepares to Scrap District’s Disputed Policy

A federal judge has forbidden school officials in Dover, Pa., to require that students be introduced to the concept of “intelligent design” in science class.

Now, the newly reconstituted Dover school board appears ready to enforce that ruling.

A strong majority of the panel’s members, after winning election in November and taking office Dec. 5, oppose the intelligent-design policy adopted by the previous board. They have been expected to take steps to do away with it and could begin that effort as early as...