Math, English Standards Released in Calif.

By Kathleen Kennedy Manzo

California's top education policymakers have unveiled the state's proposed first set of academic standards for high school students in a cooperative effort to raise achievement and relieve the burden on colleges to provide remedial education.

As the state moves closer to implementing standards for all students by 1998, as mandated by the legislature, educators are preparing for an extended debate over what students need to know.

State schools chief Delaine Eastin and California State University system Chancellor Barry Munitz this month released the draft plan for more-rigorous requirements in mathematics...