I’m confused.
Last week we saw several local school superintendents sign a document asking the state board of education to reinstate algebra II as a high school graduation requirement state-wide.
According to a state official, the local districts have the right to continue to require the course. Evidently local districts can stipulate more stringent graduation requirements than the state does.
If that is the case, then what’s the problem? The local districts can simply elect to continue to make the course a graduation requirement. Reading the Times did not clear up the matter for me.
Is this somehow about money?
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
No, it is more about politics.
From the Texas Tribune:
“In May, the Legislature unanimously passed House Bill 5, a sweeping overhaul of the state’s high school curriculum, in part to allow more opportunities for career training for students who do not intend to attend college. The changes in the new law included dropping an existing requirement that all students take algebra II to graduate in favor of allowing their selection of diploma “endorsements” in a specialized areas like science and technology, business or humanities to determine which math courses they take.
Widely debated as they passed through the Legislature, the new graduation requirements continued to be a hot topic as the State Board of Education set about deciding which courses students take to fulfill those endorsements.”
Power play between Legislature and SBOE…
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