(a) Each school district and open-enrollment charter school shall ensure that:
- (1) not later than the 2030-2031 school year, each classroom teacher that provides instruction in mathematics to students in kindergarten through third grade and each principal, assistant principal, mathematics instructional coach, and mathematics interventionist at a campus with one of those grade levels has attended a teacher mathematics achievement academy developed under Section 21.4553; and
- (2) each classroom teacher and principal initially employed in a grade level or at a campus described by Subdivision (1) for the 2030-2031 school year or a subsequent school year has attended a teacher mathematics achievement academy developed under Section 21.4553 by the end of the teacher's or principal's first year of placement in that grade level or campus.
- (b) The agency shall provide assistance to school districts and open-enrollment charter schools in complying with the requirements under this section.
(c) The agency shall:
- (1) monitor the implementation of this section; and
- (2) periodically report to the legislature on the implementation of this section and the effectiveness of this section in improving educational outcomes.
- (d) The commissioner may adopt rules to implement this section.
Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1065 (H.B. 2), Sec. 5.10, eff. June 20, 2025.