SB171 Alabama 2022 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2022

Title

Alabama Numeracy Act, established for K-5 public school students, Elementary Mathematics Task force and Postsecondary Mathematics Task Forces created, Office of Mathematics Improvement created, use of assessments, intervention services, summer programs, and mathematics coaches provided, use of Common Core State Standards in K-12 schools terminated and prohibited

Description

<p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> 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. </p>

Subjects

Public Elementary EducationSchools