SB171 Alabama 2022 Session

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

Relating to public education; to establish the Alabama Numeracy Act and prohibit the use of the Common Core State Standards in public K-12 schools; to implement steps to improve mathematics proficiency of public school kindergarten to fifth grade students and ensure that those students are proficient in mathematics at or above grade level by the end of fifth grade by monitoring the progression of each student from one grade to another, in part, by his or her proficiency in mathematics.