Schools scrambling to revamp curriculum to meet education mandates
By Anne Cook
Sunday January 29, 2006
by Robert K. O'Daniell
Paul McDannell, left, and Daniel Rear, both freshman, fill out a worksheet in Aimee Smith's Algebra I class at Urbana High School. This year's freshman class is the first required to take three years of math.
URBANA – Laura Taylor is making plans to expand Urbana High School's curriculum to comply with new state graduation standards.
Taylor, an assistant principal, said those plans will be costly. They also have the potential to put up to half the students who take Algebra I on the path to failure.
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