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House approves law setting minimum daily math minutes for elementary schools
Summary
The Oklahoma House passed HB 37-06 requiring minimum daily math instruction minutes for elementary grades and a weekly target, a bill proponents said standardizes instruction time while critics said it risks crowding other subjects.
The Oklahoma House on Thursday approved HB 37-06, a bill that sets minimum daily and weekly minutes of math instruction for elementary schools and declares the measure an emergency.
Representative Chad Caldwell, who carried the bill, said it sets a statewide minimum standard to ensure students receive consistent math instruction. "This just clarifies what our standard would be and increases the amount of time our elementary school students would spend on math," Caldwell said on the House floor. He told colleagues the measure uses the…
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