Core Academic Subject

• Core Academic Subjects:

• Consistent with NCLB

• English, reading or language arts, mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history, and geography

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Speaker Notes:

Section 602

This is a new term which has been defined to have the meaning given the term in section 9109 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 which defines 'core academic subjects' to mean English, reading or language arts, mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history, and geography.