The State - News from July 2, 1985

Leaders of a state task force proposed stiff new requirements for improving the teaching of math and science in California’s public schools. Nobel Laureate Glenn Seaborg of the University of California and Howard Annin, vice president of General Electric Co., presented the recommendations to the governor’s office. They include credentialing retired business and military people and graduate students to teach math and science at least part-time on the secondary level, and requiring prospective teachers in the two subjects to have completed math and science college courses and competency examinations.