A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to mathematics instruction, practitioner preparation programs, and the duties of the director of the department of education, and including effective date provisions.

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New requirement for the Department of Education to develop and distribute family-centered resources to support student development of mathematics knowledge at home.

New requirement for the Department of Education to provide evidence-based professional development services to teachers employed by schools most in need of support, based on mathematics proficiency levels and available resources.

New requirement for the Department of Education to develop and distribute a comprehensive state mathematics plan using systematic approaches to teaching subitizing, cardinality, object counting, verbal counting, spatial relationships, benchmark numbers, and part-part-whole models.

New requirement for the Department of Education to publish a list of valid and reliable mathematics screeners for identifying students in kindergarten through grade six who may require additional instruction or support.

New requirement for school districts to assess all kindergarten through grade six students at least three times each school year to determine mathematics proficiency levels using screeners from the department's list.

New requirement for school districts to implement specific interventions for students persistently at risk in mathematics, including weekly assessments, personalized mathematics plans developed with parents or guardians, and small group or intensive interventions depending on student progress.

New requirement for higher education institutions providing practitioner preparation to include preparation in methods for teaching mathematics, with students demonstrating competency in number sense, learning progressions, conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application aligned to Iowa academic standards.

New deadline requiring the Department of Education to develop and distribute the comprehensive state mathematics plan on or before July 1, 2025.

Eligibility for mathematics intervention support now explicitly includes innovation zone schools alongside traditional school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, and charter schools.

New definition of 'persistently at risk' as a student who has not met the grade-level benchmark on two consecutive assessments administered pursuant to the screening requirements.

State mandate funding specification was modified to reference Code section 25B.2, subsection 3, with the state cost of compliance paid by school districts from state school foundation aid received under section 257.16.

Removed Governor Kim Reynolds' signature, date, and certification language that was present in the signed enrolled version but not needed in the final enrolled bill format.

Removed decorative text, signatures of legislative officers (Speaker of House, President of Senate), and certification language from the enrolled bill document.

Added clean header identifying the document as 'House File 784 - Enrolled' for official record-keeping purposes.