Is this true? It sounds wacky even for California.
This appears to be the bill in question:
http://legiscan.com/gaits/view/404443The problematic language seems to be the requirements that "One set of standards is adopted at each grade level" and "Redundant mathematics standards are eliminated".
If the bill were passed into law in this form and strictly adhered to, I guess it would then take a grade acceleration or subject pull-out to take algebra before the standard time. One might think that this is really no problem-- if you have enough people in a grade ready to take algebra I, you could lump them together and form a new math class that was nominally a higher grade-level class, even though composed of only the lower-grade students. However, screening students for entry might be problematic in the face of slavishly applied single standards for each grade. Maybe I'm just too nervous, and the bill if implemented wouldn't hinder subject pull-outs at all, or even gifted classrooms with math that happened to adhere to the standard for a higher grade.
I think it's a straightforward bill that was introduced to specify mechanisms for diverging from Common Core standards by committee, but that it was obviously drafted without the needs of accelerated/gifted students in mind. Hopefully it will be tweaked appropriately before any adoption.
