Additional meetings with teachers from around the state and CTB McGraw-Hill would be necessary to complete this process. DESE officials assume there could be some additional state aid going to districts due to a potential increase in summer school enrollments. DESE officials were unable to determine the fiscal impact of the summer school program since some of the students would already be enrolled in summer school. This would affect the State Schools Moneys Fund. Districts could receive an increase in foundation formula money to offset the summer school reading instruction cost if there would be an increase in summer school participation due to this requirement.
Current law applies to all grade levels.
The bill would delete this language and replace it with language creating reading level assessments for public school students beginning in the 3rd grade. Remediation would be required if the pupil would be determined to be deficient in reading skills. Development of a plan, remediation, and assessments would continue until the 6th grade or until acceptable reading standards would be achieved. Additionally, each school district would be required to offer summer school reading instruction to any student with a reading improvement plan. No direct fiscal impact to small businesses would be expected as a result of this proposal.