Although the new commission is charged with developing the state's model content and performance standards and will make its own recommendations on standards to the state board next year, round table officials expect their proposal will be well received.
"There is this consensus about the need for standards and a total buy-in from the higher education community and the business community and parents that the state of California needs to be clear about what it is that high school graduates need to know and be able to do," said Dave Jolly, coordinator of the round table project.
The draft standards also complement those Eastin recommended for all students and all subjects in her Challenge Initiative, which fifty-five districts have voluntarily adopted in the last year.
The group will next appoint task forces to develop performance standards and assessments in math and English.
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