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Board may direct teachers BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
At its next meeting, the Palo Alto school board will consider telling high schools to offer an advanced math class that teachers and principals rejected but students and parents have been fighting for. The debate over Multivariable Calculus has been long and contentious, pitting advanced math advocates
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Calculus in the course catalog, starting in the fall. But the course was opposed by the ents are frustrated at the apparent con- Paly Educational Council — a group of tradictions and backpedaling around teachers, counselors and administrators Multivariable Calculus over the last that sets the school’s educational priorfew years,” Chiu said at a Jan. 20 board ities. meeting. Offering the class “risks amplifying Palo Alto High School math teach- the already significant pressures on stuer Daniel Nguyen wrote a proposal for dents to do more, faster, at the expense Multivariable Calculus to follow AP [See MATH, page 22]
To offer advanced math class against those worried about adding pressure on students. Board president Shounak Dharap confirmed yesterday that he put the topic on the board’s Tuesday agenda at the request of board member Rowena Chiu. “I’ve been elected to serve my constituents, and many of those constitu-
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CORRECTION: In his column Monday, Dave Price incorrectly stated that Palo Alto school board President Shounak Dharap would be involved in soliciting proposals from search firms looking for a replacement for exSuperintendent Don Austin. The board has asked its employees to solicit proposals from search firms.
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