New laws in California have set the state on a course for some potentially significant changes to the curriculum, including a measure that revisits the matter of teaching Algebra 1 in 8th grade and ...

California spends nearly 40 cents of every dollar it takes in on our public schools. This year, the state's taxpayers are giving the schools $30 billion out of California's $78 billion budget to ...

Re “Schools Get Waivers for Algebra Law,” April 26: Thirteen thousand high school seniors in California -- 4% of the total number of seniors -- have not been taught the algebra required by law for ...

Since the State Board of Education granted Santa Cruz a waiver earlier this year exempting it from the law requiring high school students to complete one year of algebra, about 200 other districts ...

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