San Francisco Can’t Do the Math

A battle over equity, achievement—and eighth-grade algebra.

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Remember the folks who helped lead the drive to recall three members of the school board in uber-woke San Francisco? Well, they’re back. This time they want to restore eighth-grade algebra to the public school curriculum, which was dropped nearly a decade ago.

The group has renamed itself the SF Guardians and is made up of parents, teachers and concerned citizens. They say that for San Francisco not to offer eighth-grade algebra is particularly embarrassing given the district’s location in the shadow of Silicon Valley. Most other Bay Area schools offer the course.

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