Original sentence: A blue ribbon panel is created to determine that current math standards are inadequate and unacceptable, and draw up a plan to implement texts which are compliant with standards-based education reform, of which mathematics is only one field of curricula.At no time is there a place for public debate of whether such new standards should be adopted.In general, only a small number of parents or mathematics experts are even aware of such an adoption process, and a few parents and citizens will be recruited to support such an adoption.Instead, the public is invited to be informed of the new standards, and are invited to provide input, and break up into small groups on how they can help adopt and embrace the new standards.Many districts apply for the federal grants which are generally given only to districts which adopt standards-based curricula.Mathematics texts are generally chosen by local school districts, or promoted by state education agencies, often with the support of business organizations such as the Business Roundtable by a consensus process.Once these curricula are adopted, citizens often find it difficult or impossible to persuade education officials to discard them, despite a wide body of information about the ineffectiveness of them, but citizens in some states and districts have succeeded in some cases such as California, and Tacoma, Washington.Similar standards-based curricula also exist for science, social studies, and language arts, also with their own controversies