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HCR137 • 2025

REQUIRING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO REVIEW AND REPORT ON DELAWARE MATHEMATICS INSTRUCTION AND MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM OF SUPPORT.

REQUIRING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO REVIEW AND REPORT ON DELAWARE MATHEMATICS INSTRUCTION AND MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM OF SUPPORT.

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2026-05-20
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Plain English Breakdown

The official source confirms the review covers academic and non-academic supports but does not define specific examples of those supports.

Reviewing Math Teaching and Support Systems in Delaware

This resolution requires the Delaware Department of Education to study how math is taught alongside support systems for elementary, middle, and high school students and report its findings by June 30, 2027.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires the state education department to review current Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) frameworks along with mathematics instruction in elementary, middle, and high schools.
  • Asks officials to check how math teaching aligns with academic and non-academic supports across all levels of instruction.
  • Directs the creation of recommendations to improve consistency in math teaching, testing, and support alignment.
  • Orders a report on findings and suggestions for new laws or rules by June 30, 2027.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The Delaware Department of Education
  • Students in elementary, middle, and high schools learning mathematics

Terms To Know

MTSS framework
A system that provides different levels of support to help students succeed academically.
Instructional coherence
Making sure teaching methods, tests, and supports work together clearly across all grades.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The resolution does not state specific changes to math classes until the report is finished.
  • It does not list which non-academic supports will be reviewed in detail.
  • No funding amounts or new staff positions are mentioned in this text.

Bill History

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Official Summary Text

REQUIRING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO REVIEW AND REPORT ON DELAWARE MATHEMATICS INSTRUCTION AND MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM OF SUPPORT.
This House Concurrent Resolution requires the Delaware Department of Education to review the State's current MTSS framework in coordination with the DE Mathematics Framework as it relates to elementary, middle, and high school mathematics within academic and non-academic supports to develop recommendations to strengthen instructional coherence in math, assessment, and the alignment of support across all tiers of instruction and report findings and recommendations for legislative and regulatory action by June 30, 2027.