Educators Warn of Falling Academic Standards in California

Children walk past a school bus in Monterey Park, Calif., on April 28, 2017. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images

With California’s K-12 education consistently ranked below average or even near the lowest in the nation, parents, educators and local officials have increasingly expressed their concern with the Golden State’s public schooling.

With the introduction of the Common Core State Standards Initiative in 2010, a set of national education standards were implemented, replacing the individual state education standards.