Originally Posted by melmichigan
"My understanding is that CA really does have the top math curriculum but rather low reading proficiency benchmarks."

With my limited experience I also agree that the math standard in CA is good. We've been in a CA school and a midwest school (both are very good schools in very good districts), and I have to say the CA school has higher standards not only in math but also in reading and writing. But the midwest school has a lot more arts and music.