The Georgia Department of Education recruited teachers to rewrite the state’s K-12 math standards in 2019, but the effort was disrupted and delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Georgia is adopting new math standards that are billed as the removal of Common Core and a return to teacher freedom, but the new standards may not make it into classrooms before the 2023 school year.

His chief of staff, Matt Jones, said "99.9 percent" of Georgia's math standards are derived from the Common Core. ... a Valdosta city councilman who teaches seventh grade math, ...