MI HB5996

Requires state board model core academic curriculum content standards to encompass academic and cognitive instruction only, excluding attitudes, beliefs, or value systems not essential to legal, economic, and social structures.

Mandates that history standards for grades 8-12 include learning objectives concerning genocide, including the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide.

Requires reading and writing standards for grades K-6 to be based on the science of reading, using code emphasis approaches and evidence-based instructional methods grounded in structured literacy, effective beginning with the 2025-2026 school year.

Establishes a committee of university mathematics faculty and high-performing elementary math teachers to develop updated mathematics standards for grades K-5 by June 30, 2025, which school districts must adopt beginning with the 2026-2027 school year.

Specifies that state assessments test only academic proficiency and subject matter, not pupils' values or attitudes, and clarifies that "science of reading" draws from research in cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and related fields.