The story I heard about SF schools and why they are eliminated math tracking is different. It's that because the district doesn't have the money to test and evaluated all of their students for advanced math placement into the new Common Core standards. It's SF deciding that given their budget they would rather make the smart kids retake classes than have kids who fall through the cracks. (I don't like it or think it's right but from what I heard last fall it's not about math ideology.) But I'm not surprised to hear someone is trying rationalize it a different way. There are a lot of very unhappy parents and teachers out there and private H.S. in the area are very hard to get into this year.
