This bill would establish the Alabama Numeracy Act and would prohibit the use of the curriculum standards, commonly known as the Common Core State Standards, in public K-12 schools.
This bill would provide further for improved mathematics instruction in public schools and would provide a means for increasing grade level proficiency in mathematics for public school students in grades K-5.
This bill would establish and provide for the duties of an Elementary Mathematics Task Force, a Postsecondary Mathematics Task Force, and an Office of Mathematics Improvement within the State Department of Education.
This bill would provide benchmarks, the monitoring of schools, state intervention for low performing schools, an Alabama Summer Mathematics Achievement Program, mathematics intervention services, and funding.
This bill would provide specific instructional practices for elementary school educators, would specify the qualifications of mathematics coaches and require their presence in schools, and would require the State Superintendent of Education to develop a K-5 mathematics coach endorsement program and provide for the award of the endorsement to certain qualified mathematics coaches.
This bill would also require the State Superintendent of Education and the State Board of Education to terminate the flexibility waiver agreement with the United States Department of Education pertaining to the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which includes the adoption of the Common Core State Standards.
Assigned Act No. 2022-249.
Signature Requested
Enrolled
Concurred in Second House Amendment
Orr motion to Concur In and Adopt adopted Roll Call 764
Concurrence Requested
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 734
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 733
Drummond Amendment Offered
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 732
Education Policy first Substitute Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Education Policy
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 464
Orr motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 463
Finance and Taxation Education first Substitute Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and
Read for the Second time and referred to Committee on Finance and Taxation Education per Rule 54
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Education Policy
Source: Alabama Legislature