The California Department of Education (CDE) has adopted standards setting forth what California students should learn and be able to do at every grade level in English-language arts, mathematics, history-social science, science, and visual and performing arts. These are known as the California Content Standards and they apply to all public schools in the state.
You can find the California content standards for each subject at each grade level on the CDE web site.
On January 7, 2010, the Governor signed into law Senate Bill X5 1 which calls for California's academic content standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics to be examined against the nationwide Common Core Standards that were released in final form on June 2, 2010. The bill also calls for the establishment of the California Academic Content Standards Commission. Download the Common Core Standards
The textbooks we use and the tests we give are based on the California content standards. The district has adopted textbooks from lists that have been approved by the California Department of Education that cover California Content Standards.
Grade by grade, the standards create a vision of a balanced and comprehensive academic program and policy experts, researchers, and educators consider California's standards to be among the most rigorous and challenging in the nation.
Our goal is to ensure that every student graduating from high school is prepared to transition successfully to postsecondary education and careers.
Click on the links below to read the California standards on CDE's web site.
