This story by Lear Zhou ran in the Epoch Times on August 18, 2023:
Friends of Lowell Foundation Mentioned:
In a letter sent on July 12, Friends of Lowell Foundation, a group of parents, called for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to place a ballot measure in the 2024 election to make Algebra 1 available again for 8th-graders.
Also on July 12, the California State Board of Education approved a new math framework that did not suit the parents’ wishes.
“It’s a shame that with all these high-tech companies that have a presence here in our city, our school kids in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) cannot get to calculus, because when they moved Algebra 1 out of the eighth grade and put it into the ninth grade, that pushed everything back as a result,” Rex Ridgeway, PTSA president of Abraham Lincoln High School and the author of the letter, told The Epoch Times.