Delaware General Assembly

House Education 3/11/25

Committee Hearing takes place within twelve legislative days.

3/11/25

K. Williams

Rep. Heffernan
Sen. Sturgeon

Reps. Burns, Griffith, Neal, Osienski, Hilovsky
Sen. Buckson, Hansen, Walsh

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO READING COMPETENCY.

This Act updates the DOE’s standards for selecting and and implementing statewide reading screeners and literacy intervention approaches. In summary, this Act does the following: 1. Clarifies factors that the Department must consider when selecting literacy intervention approaches that may be used by schools. 2. Authorizes school districts and charter schools to submit an alternative reading screener to the Department for approval. 3. Requires the Department to annually identify schools with a significant level of students below proficient on the State’s third grade reading assessment for 2 consecutive years. 4. Requires the Department to provide additional supports to schools identified as below proficient.

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