The linguists will undoubtedly disagree with me, but I believe it's a joke being taught in schools, since there is no standard variety and it is definitely not a creole or pidgin. There are certain features which characterize Ebonics, such as mentioned on the website.
Languages are never 'standard' (even with in writing, there's no one that one can confirm completely with the rules of the written code). Unless the standard you are talking about is a 'prescriptivist' standard
In a nutshell, this is nothing new for California; wasting tax payers' dollars on useless programs which serve no purpose other than to make a political statement of "correctness"...
That statement, could also apply to learning foreign languages in California....
There's a reason it's called a dialect. I don't think there's anything wrong with AAVE, it's indicative of a certain culture. However, that'd be like proposing in New York that students learn to right "forget about it" as "fuhgeddaboudit" and that being the way teachers talk to students.
Did you learn to write write as right?

I see no problems with teaching English dialects - in fact, it would be nice if they could extend further and include the major English dialect of each region as being taught as the 'standard' along side with the two dialectal variations.
It's similar even, to go to a topic that Ego brought up also in this forum, to Patois in Jamaica. Patois is sure as heck not taught in Jamaican schools, and I don't think any Jamaican would even believe it if you said you thought it should be. There's usually a distinction between language in school and the workplace and language in the home and around friends. Even if the dialect you speak isn't markedly different from the ideal standard, everyone usually becomes far more standard when dealing in professional situations.
I would say that opinions about Patois dialect is a direct result of colonisation more than anything else. Even if we all 'conformed' to a so called 'standard' English, who would decide what is standard as such? We already have two staunch English language groups, that being the British and the American groups.....
Wow, you're white.
That's just as random as saying 'wow, you're female!' 'wow, you're smart!' or even 'wow, that's spam!'. That's called spamming.