California's Math Overhaul

Brian Conrad did excellent work analysing the various drafts of the framework (including the most recent one, which was ~1000 pages and was released only a couple of weeks before the vote).

His write-ups can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/publiccommentsonthecmf/

Sadly, that final draft retained many of the shortcomings (and citation misrepresentation) that Brian pointed out many months ago. The board approved it anyway.

There were some last-minute edits made to the final draft before approval. During the board meeting, between the end of the presentations and the start of public comment, they said that there is now nothing in the CMF that indicates that Data Science courses validate (i.e. act as a substitute for) Algebra II for the purposes of admission to public universities in California. I haven't verified this for myself.

The children who will suffer the most negative impact due to the CMF are those whose parents cannot afford private school or tutoring (to allow them to progress at a decent pace in math) and those whose parents unfamiliar with college admissions (because they will be unable to counsel them away from 'math' courses that do not prepare them for rigorous college-level work).