On Thursday May 26, 2016 the La Cañada Unified School District Governing Board voted unanimously (4-0) to approve the Textbook Adoption Committee and District Staff’s recommendation to adopt Everyday Mathematics for grades K-5 and Math In Focus for grade 6 beginning in the 2016-17 school year over the objections of many concerned parents. Board members approving the motion included Dan Jeffries, Brent Kuszyk, Ellen Multari and Kaitzer Puglia. Board President David Sagal was absent. Prior to the vote, a lengthy debate about the decision, including a special board workshop had ensued with teachers and staff expressing their support of Everyday Mathematics, and parents mostly expressing their concerns or opposition to it. In all, twenty parents spoke during the public discussion period prior to the vote, with all but two asking the board to either delay the vote or reject the motion as proposed to adopt Everyday Mathematics. There was no debate during the three plus hours of presentations and discussion about the committee’s recommendation of Math In Focus for grade 6. The Board expressed vocal support for the creation of a textbook adoption oversight committee that included parents as well as teachers to closely monitor how the adoption of Everyday Mathematics proceeds in the coming years, although no formal motion was made to put this idea into action.
Read the Los Angeles Times account of the meeting and vote here.
Please go to http://www.CTA.org/optout to learn why the Teacher’s Union does not like Common Core. If you get 5% of the school district parents to opt out of Common Core State Testing it would invalidate Common Core Curriculum. Get the Common core opt out form from CUACC.org.