In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...
Only about half of students were at grade level in English Language Arts across the state and even less were at grade level in math, the state numbers show.
And in some places, all students take Algebra 1 in ninth grade. In 2014, San Francisco schools stopped offering accelerated middle school math classes and made Algebra 1 a ninth-grade math ...