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The California State Board of Education has recently decided that all 8th. graders in the state should take Algebra. See prior posts on thi...

from the London Guardian http://books.guardian.co.uk/interviews/story/0,,2291935,00.html America's last taboo Barbara Ehrenreich has bee...

Jack O’Connell: California’s Alarming Dropout Rate and the Support Our Children Need In this week’s Democratic weekly radio address, State S...

Do the math: Algebra mandate's a formula for failure By Jack Stewart and Bob Balgenorth - Special to The Bee California eighth-graders c...

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As you may have read, the California School Board with one day's notice has decided that all 8th. graders shall take Algebra. This is t...

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The Collapse of Federal Firefighting in California By Robert Cruickshank As my recent articles have shown there is a shortage of firefighter...

Accountability The school systems in most of our cities in California are currently at a crisis point. Schools can continue as they ar...