robworks-software/california-k12-standards

California K-12 Educational Standards

3,410 records organized around California K-12 standards frameworks, including Common Core, NGSS, ELD, CTE, and Ethnic Studies. Records carry a standard identifier, grade level, subject area, domain, and generated learning-objective and application text.

How this was built (read this first)

These records are programmatically generated, not transcribed from official standards documents. A generator took a standards taxonomy - codes, grade levels, domains, and similar structured fields - and expanded it into instruction/output pairs using a fixed set of sentence templates.

Two consequences:

1. 1.The text is not official standard language. Where a field looks like a standard's wording, it is template output built around the standard's code and domain, not the text the issuing body published.
2. 2.The text repeats heavily. Of 3,066 populated standard_text values only 987 are distinct (32.2%); the most common phrasing appears 21 times. Standard identifiers repeat too - each CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.* code appears about 4 times with different generated text attached.

Field values that are drawn from the source taxonomy - standard codes, grade levels, domain and framework names - are reliable. The generated prose around them is not.

Loading

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("robworks-software/california-k12-standards")

ela = ds["train"].filter(lambda x: x["subject_area"] == "English Language Arts")

3,410 rows, single train split.

Framework distribution

The dataset spans 14 framework areas (ELA, mathematics, NGSS science, ELD, history-social science, visual & performing arts, health, environmental, physical education, CTE, world languages, ethnic studies, computer science, school library).

These counts describe this dataset, not the frameworks. A framework's row count here reflects how many records the generator produced, not how many standards the California Department of Education has adopted. Earlier versions of this card presented a "100% Complete" coverage column for every framework; that claim was not substantiated and has been removed.

Limitations

• —32.2% distinct standard text - see above.
• —Identifiers do not uniquely key rows. The same CCSS code appears on multiple rows. If you need one row per standard, deduplicate on id first.
• —Not a substitute for CDE source documents. For official standard language, use the California Department of Education directly.
• —Currency is 2024 at best. Framework adoptions and legislative requirements have moved since. There is no update schedule.
• —No expert review. Previous versions of this card claimed "Professional Review: Educational expert validation" and "100% Cross-Verification". Neither took place. The content was generated and structurally validated only.
• —`cognitive_level` and `real_world_applications` are generator assignments, not pedagogical judgments from a curriculum specialist.

Source taxonomy

California Department of Education framework structure, Common Core State Standards, and NGSS identifiers. Standards codes and framework names are public; the generated prose is original output of this project.

License

CC0-1.0.

Citation

@dataset{california_k12_standards,
  title  = {California K-12 Educational Standards},
  author = {Robson, Ryan and Robworks Software},
  year   = {2025},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  note   = {Programmatically generated around California framework taxonomies},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/robworks-software/california-k12-standards}
}