Cabinet plugs $49m into stemming math ‘crisis’

Cabinet has approved the expenditure of $48.6 million to address what it has deemed a “crisis” in student performance at Grade Six Mathematics.

Minister of State, Joe Harmon, told reporters at yesterday’s post-cabinet press briefing that Cabinet has approved a seven-point strategy labelled the “Emergency Education intervention for improved performance in Mathematics by students in Grade Six.”

The approved intervention which is expected to address critical issues in