CVUSD school board members should vote no when the Everyday Math (EM) curriculum comes up for renewal this year. The California State Board of Education has rejected Everyday Math twice for failing to meet California's Key Math standards, and the state of Texas recently rejected Everyday Math for use in third-grade classrooms. Save Our Children from Mediocre Math would like to remind the community that it is time to inform the school board what you think about the EM program.

The following link- www .nychold.com/chart-tx-era.pdf- will take you to a report prepared for use in the 2007 math adoption process in the state of Texas. This detailed evaluation of specific content criteria for numerous thirdgrade math texts clearly illustrates the weakness of the NCTM standards-based Everyday Math text. The report rates this curriculum as being grossly inferior, thereby providing solid evidence that this program should not be approved for use in any school district.

An unwise decision by the school board could saddle our children with the mediocre EM program for another seven years. CVUSD will close two elementary schools due to declining enrollment.

Many families are sending students out of our district rather than endure the failure of the EM program to teach mathematics to mastery.

Parents are spending a great deal of time and money to remediate the failure of CVUSD public schools to adequately teach math in the classroom.

SOCMM urges the CVUSD school board to vote no on the very expensive and poorly rated Everyday Math curriculum. Please, save our children from mediocre math. Jo Anne Cobasko Thousand Oaks Save Our Children from Mediocre Math