The issue focused largely on lawmakers making recommendations about education standards for Louisiana schools and outlined guidelines for measuring academic achievement for math and science teachers in Louisiana schools. It raised concerns about math scores being inflated by overly optimistic assessments that ignored math gaps between minority students and whites and math gaps between math scores between math scores between whites and minorities. The recommendations sought to eliminate math gaps between blacks and whites by adopting mathematical stereotypes such as blacks scoring lower than whites on standardized tests than whites do on standardized tests and blacks scoring lower than whites on