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MN SF278
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/22/2015
Primary Sponsor
Roger Chamberlain
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AI Summary
- School districts must adopt local literacy plans ensuring every child reads at or above grade level by end of grade 3, including English learners, with plans posted on district websites effective fiscal year 2016
- Local literacy plans must include assessment processes, parent notification procedures, reading intervention strategies, evidence-based intervention methods, progress monitoring, staff development, and explicit systematic instruction in phonology and language decoding skills
- Literacy incentive aid for schools is based on third grade reading proficiency (proficiency aid) and fourth grade reading growth (growth aid), each calculated at $530 per student metric, averaged across three previous test administrations
- Defines dyslexia as a neurological learning disability characterized by difficulties with word recognition, spelling, and decoding abilities resulting from phonological language deficits
- Basic skills revenue may be used for literacy-related staff development and implementation of local literacy plans under section 120B.12, subdivision 4a, effective fiscal year 2016
Legislative Description
Childhood literacy provisions modifications
Last Action
Referred to Education
1/22/2015
Committee Referrals
Education1/22/2015
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