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Senate panel hears renewal, funding request for Math Learning Communities program
Summary
Sponsor Representative Rick Ladd and the community college project director described HB 494, which would clarify administration and funding for Math Learning Communities training and curriculum development; witnesses outlined program history, training for high‑school teachers, and a multi‑year funding path proposed during the House review.
Representative Rick Ladd told the Senate Education Committee that House Bill 494 would place the Math Learning Communities program more clearly under the community college system, and asked the Senate to treat the program as a funding priority.
"This bill is relative to the math learning communities and making appropriation therefore," Ladd said, outlining the program's history: it began as a grant program, was designed to reduce post‑secondary remedial placements, and trained high‑school teachers to deliver integrated, inquiry‑based mathematics that prepares…
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