@Cousin_Isobel Lowering math standards isn't in the best interest of the state. High tech is dependent on STEM and STEM requires calculus. Provide more tutoring services to low income and minority students instead of lowering the standards for everyone.

Stanford and CalTech will just accept more out of state students. I can't see them lowering their standards. Out of state tuition is more expensive at the University of California where half the student body is Asian.

If the standards are lowered, high tech in California will just recruit more foreign workers.

"It’s most obvious in top universities like Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley, and UCLA. Those schools funneled great minds into California STEM enterprises like Silicon Valley, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and aeronautical engineering. Both the Central Valley and Hollywood—America’s main providers of food and fodder, respectively—rely upon engineering to mechanize production and optimize output."

"Never mind that before California lowered its standards, the United States already ranked far behind the best-performing countries in math—places like Singapore, China, Estonia, and Slovenia. All those countries teach high school students calculus and, in some cases, more advanced linear algebra. (If we’re really in the midst of a cold war with China, we sure aren’t acting like it.)"