HB162 - AN ACT relating to mathematics education and making an appropriation therefor.
James A. Tipton
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends KRS 158.791 to specify the role of the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) in assisting local school districts with mathematics instruction, supports, and interventions and to require KDE to collaborate with designated agencies on mathematics programming, materials, and activities; amends KRS 158.840 to require students in kindergarten through grade three needing to make accelerated progress in mathematics to receive interventions and to require that the Council on Postsecondary Education submit an annual report on the compliance of teacher preparation programs to this Act; creates a new section of KRS 158.840 to 158.844 to require that KDE promulgate regulations defining and establishing a multitiered system of supports to include mathematics instruction, intervention, and instructional strategies for students through grade three, to require that KDE provide technical support to school districts, to require that school districts select a universal screener for mathematics by January 1, 2026, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, to require that a universal screener be given to every student in kindergarten through grade three within 30 days of the start of the school year, to require the development of a mathematics improvement plan in the first 60 days for any student in kindergarten through grade three who is identified as needing interventions, to require that KDE report the status of implementation to the Legislative Research Commission (LRC) by November 1, 2027, to require that KDE provide resources to teachers on specific screeners and instructional resources, and to require that KDE establish reading teacher academies or coaching models for teachers of students in grades kindergarten through eight by September 1, 2025; creates a new section of KRS 158.840 to 158.844 to establish the Kentucky numeracy counts fund, to provide that moneys and interest in the fund shall not lapse, and to provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Numeracy Counts Act; creates KRS 158.8401 to define new terms for KRS 158.840 to 158.844; amends KRS 158.842 to change the composition of the Committee for Mathematics Achievement and to require that the committee report activities and progress to LRC by May 1, 2025; creates KRS 164.3061 to require postsecondary institutions offering teacher preparation programs in elementary education to include evidence-based instructional strategies for kindergarten through grade three beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, to require that the Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB) develop and maintain a list of approved teacher preparation assessments, to require that the EPSB develop an evaluation rubric for teacher candidates, and to require that the EPSB report data to an external evaluator for analysis and report the results and all data to LRC; and appropriates General Fund moneys in the amount of $5 million in fiscal year 2024-2025 and $5 million in fiscal year 2025-2026 to the Kentucky numeracy counts fund; APPROPRIATION.
STATUS
Passed