Department of Education staff and standards work groups reviewed proposed revisions to K–12 English language arts (ELA) and mathematics standards and said several of the changes would be submitted for endorsement at a later step, the department reported at its meeting.

The discussion covered revisions to writing and language standards in elementary grades, clarifications to data-and-inference language in middle-school statistics and probability standards, proposed K–5 operational-fluency examples, and several high-school course-option updates including Advanced Math Functions and Statistics, Advanced Math Precalculus, Math Essentials, and Probability and Statistics. Meeting participants moved to approve the meeting minutes, and the motion passed.

Why it matters: Academic standards guide classroom expectations, assessment frameworks and curriculum adoption. Changes to wording, alignment and example material can affect teacher guidance, instructional materials and local curriculum decisions.

During the ELA portion, a staff presenter described proposed edits to writing standards for early elementary grades that aim to tighten organization and source-integration expectations and to make language clearer for teachers. The work group said it added grade-level examples intended to illustrate paragraph-writing and source integration across Grades 1–5 and moved one Grade 5 example into an appendix for clarity and accessibility. Work-group presenters said some wording changes were drafted to reduce repetitive phrasing and to improve accessibility language in Grade 1 materials.

On mathematics, presenters said K–5 working groups identified needs for clearer operational-fluency guidance and additional examples; the teams recommended incorporating examples and classification language to help teachers interpret standards for mathematics facts, basic operations and number sense. For middle grades, presenters said the proposed Grade 7 changes make the connection between data and inference explicit in the statistics and probability domain so that students use data to draw conclusions. The groups described updates to geometry examples and to how two- and three-dimensional shape examples are presented across grade bands.

For high school, presenters outlined a set of course-option revisions and consolidation: "Advanced Math Functions and Statistics" and "Advanced Math Precalculus" were described as combined or parallel course options; the work group also named Math Essentials and Probability and Statistics as distinct course options that will be presented for final consideration. Presenters said the groups had debated how to label and sequence these options so they align with college- and career-readiness expectations.

The meeting included a brief procedural action: a motion to approve the meeting minutes was made and, according to the transcript, the motion passed. Presenters repeatedly noted that working groups would continue revising language, finalize examples and submit selected revisions for endorsement; the transcript does not record a formal vote on the endorsement of standards themselves.

The department noted the revisions follow prior work discussed at an earlier meeting (referred to in the transcript as the May meeting) and that work groups will continue to meet to finalize domains such as data & measurement and geometry before additional reviews. No funding decisions or regulatory changes were announced at this meeting.

Looking ahead, staff and the working groups said they intend to submit the proposed revisions for endorsement and will continue to refine examples, accessibility language and course labeling before any formal adoption step recorded in the transcript.