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“Our kids were flunking out of Algebra in 8th grade, and I would say there was an equity issue,” said Emily Murase, who was a school board member in 2014. San Francisco’s status quo before 2014 wasn’t great. “People with means started finding other ways to get ahead.” A calculated move “It has led to even worse inequities and driven them underground,” said Elizabeth Statmore, a math teacher at the district’s Lowell High, the city’s top performing public high school. Other parents in the district have done the same. Ridgeway said he was furious when he learned about the district’s policy and sought ways to get Joselyn to Calculus by 12th grade and maximize her chances of attending UCLA, her dream school.
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The framework, however, is a set of suggestions and there will be no penalty for districts that opt to ignore it. After blowback from parents and math experts, the state will be releasing the revised framework in January before finalizing the guidelines in July. The state’s recommendation of the same policy in its controversial math framework has reignited San Francisco parents like Ridgeway who opposed the measure nearly eight years ago. “A lot of Black families don’t have the resources to do what I did.” Joselyn Marroquin does her homework at a park a few blocks from her home in the Bay View neighborhood of San Francisco on Dec. “I had her take Algebra 1 over the summer so she could master it when she took it again with Geometry,” Ridgeway said. Ridgeway, who is Black, said he hoped that going into high school already knowing Algebra 1 would lighten the burden of taking two math classes. To make sure Joselyn could handle taking two math classes this year, her grandfather Rex Ridgeway, who oversees Joselyn’s education, paid $850 for her to enroll in an Algebra 1 class during the summer after 8th grade. The change succeeded at reducing the number of students failing courses, but has coincided with a drop in test scores at some schools serving higher-needs students, a point of criticism relevant to all of California because the state plans to recommend the same policy for every school district statewide as part of a new math framework.Īt the same time, the change has led families with resources, like Joselyn’s, to find ways to help their kids get ahead in math, perpetuating some of the inequities the policy was meant to eliminate. The goal was to get these students into higher level math classes and eventually to careers in science, tech, engineering or math.
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In 2014, district officials decided to delay Algebra 1 until 9th grade in hopes of lowering the number of Black, Latino and low-income students failing Algebra 1 in 8th grade. “It was hard at first, but I got used to it.” “The stress of taking two classes and having homework for each was difficult to manage,” Joselyn said. Joselyn Marroquin, a freshman at Lincoln High in San Francisco, challenged herself by taking two math classes this year.īecause the San Francisco Unified School District requires students to wait until 9th grade to take Algebra 1, Joselyn enrolled in both Algebra 1 and Geometry at the same time so she can make it to AP Calculus by her senior year. So far, the results aren’t completely promising. Back in 2014, San Francisco adopted one of the core ideas in the state’s proposed math framework.