>As a result, every year, more than 170,000 California community college students are placed into remedial math based on how well they do on a standardized test in algebra. Over 110,000 of them never complete math requirements for getting an associate degree or for transferring to CSU or the University of California.

Should Intermediate Algebra, or Algebra II be required to graduate college? Many say it harms graduation rates, and most students in remedial math courses never pass.

>A recent estimate found that, among community college students, 50-60 percent of the racial disparity in degree completion is driven by decisions to place students in math remediation, according to an unpublished study by the RP Group.

Also, it stops people of color from obtaining degrees