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DIVISION I STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION —— COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS

Section 1. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION —— COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF IOWA EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS —— RECOMMENDED REVISIONS.

1. The director of the department of education shall conduct a comprehensive review of the high school graduation requirements and core curriculum established pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 26, the core content standards established pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 28, and the educational standards established in section 256.11. The comprehensive review shall be designed to generate recommendations for policy changes to be included in the report reports required under subsection 3. 4. The recommendations for policy changes shall include all of the following:

a. A plan to eliminate the use of the core content standards and return to the basics of reading, writing, arithmetic, and United States history and civics.

a. A plan to regularly review and revise the core content standards focused on English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies, with a focus on United States history, western civilization, and civics.

b. A plan to make Iowa’s educational standards the best in the nation.

c. Input from relevant stakeholders, including parents and teachers.

d. A plan to increase the quality of the instructional curriculum.

e. Innovative ways to streamline testing.

e. A plan to maximize local flexibility in graduation requirements and course offerings while maintaining a goal that all high school graduates have necessary skills at graduation.

f. Identification of opportunities to equip high school graduates with sufficient knowledge of civics and United States history, including the principles reflected in the Constitution of the United States, so that high school graduates are capable of discharging the responsibilities associated with United States citizenship.

g. A plan to make Iowa the most literate state in the United States using systematic and sequential approaches to teaching phonetic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and text comprehension.

g. A statewide literacy plan to increase student proficiency using systematic and sequential approaches to teaching phonetic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and text comprehension. The statewide literacy plan shall address standards for practitioner preparation programs established under section 256.16 that promote evidence-based reading instruction and practical application that are direct, systematic, explicit, responsive, and that consist of phonetic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and text comprehension. Such standards shall not include instruction or practical application that is designed to teach students using the instructional model commonly known as the three-cueing system.

h. A plan to eliminate the teaching of critical race theory and social and emotional learning.

2. The director of the department of education shall ensure that the core curriculum established pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 26, the core content standards established pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 28, and the educational standards established in section 256.11, comply with section 279.74.

2. 3. The comprehensive review described in subsection 1 shall include all of the following:

a. Publishing a link on Providing the department of education’s internet site that allows opportunity for the public and interested stakeholders to provide comments related to the comprehensive review, including comments related to each graduation requirement, core content standard, and educational requirement by grade level. level, at each committee meeting convened pursuant to this subsection.

b. Collecting and considering the comments provided pursuant to paragraph “a”.

c.

(1) Convening committees to assist in the comprehensive review and provide recommendations related to the subject areas in the educational standards established in section 256.11.