One school in southern Maine requires four years of math and science, including chemistry and physics to graduate, a two year research project presented in the spring of the senior year, as well as community service and citizenship activities documented in a portfolio. That school is adjacent to a school which requires 2 years of math and science.
Some schools insist upon rigorous mathematics for all, beginning with algebra.
Others are content to grant high school credit for general arithmetic. While the Learning Results are not a curriculum, it is a framework for curriculum design. Maine is challenged to raise the bar for all students while honoring each unique culture of its mostly rural schools. As society has changed, students have changed. The work of Fred Newman asks schools to create work for students that has value beyond school.