Math Placement Act News Today

The Palo Alto Unified School District Board of Education declined to decide on a flexible student mathematics-acceleration program for its middle schools on Tuesday night, Nov. 14, instead leaving the decision to school administrators.

The State Board of Education is poised to approve a nearly 1,000-page guidance for math instruction this week with the ambitious, much-contested goal of transforming how math is taught in

The State Board of Education is expected to pass the latest, clearer version, though critics are still not mollified.

The State Board of Education is expected to pass the third version, a year in the making, after a hearing on Wednesday. Its goal is to raise achievement by making math engaging and relevant, but critics point to flaws.

A varied approach is required to address the inequalities that keep Californias Black and Latino students from accessing advanced math.

A multipronged approach is required to address the inequalities that keep California's Black and Latino students from accessing and thriving in advanced math.

A judge ruled that the Palo Alto school districts method of placing students in high school math classes violates state law and ordered the district to submit a math placement policy for the court to review.

A judge ruled that the Palo Alto school districts method of placing students in high school math classes violates state law and ordered the district to submit a math placement policy for the court to review.

View the San Francisco for Wednesday, February 22, 2023

How a court decision in Palo Alto about the California Math Placement Act could affect public school math curriculum at SFUSD and beyond