Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 70-1210.5E: Remediation in mathematics – Implementation

contingency – Verification of expenditure levels.

A. Contingent upon the provision of appropriated funds

designated for such purpose, students who do not perform

satisfactorily on the mathematics portion of either the norm-

referenced or criterion-referenced tests for grades three through

eight required pursuant to Section 1210.508 of this title shall be

provided remediation. The remediation may include but not be

limited to tutorial instruction after regular school hours, on

Saturdays and during the summer. Such instruction shall not be

counted toward the one-hundred-eighty-day school year required in

Section 1-109 of this title.

B. Implementation of this section shall be delayed until the

current expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance in public

elementary and secondary schools in unadjusted dollars for the 1998-

99 school year or any school year thereafter for Oklahoma, as

reported by the National Center for Education Statistics annually in

the Digest of Education Statistics, reaches at least ninety percent

(90%) of the regional average expenditure for that same year, and

funds are provided. For purposes of this section, the regional

average expenditure shall consist of the current expenditure per

pupil in average daily attendance in public elementary and secondary

schools in unadjusted dollars for each of the following states:

Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and

Texas, averaged together. By January 1 of each year, the State

Board of Education shall report whether or not the ninety-percent

expenditure level has been reached based on information reported

annually in the Digest of Education Statistics by the National

Center for Education Statistics. This section shall be implemented

on July 1 after the first January 1 report verifies that the ninety-

percent expenditure level has been reached and funds have been

provided for the specific purposes of this section.