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2002 SESSION
HB 333 Standards of Quality; early intervention reading programs.
Introduced by: Phillip A. Hamilton | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Standards of Quality; early intervention reading programs. Requires local school boards, within the Standards of Quality, to provide early reading intervention services to students in kindergarten through the third grade who demonstrate deficiencies reflected in each student's performance on a diagnostic screening tool approved by the Department of Education or the state-provided diagnostic screening instrument, PALS (Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening) administered in the fall to all students in kindergarten through third grade and in the spring to students who received intervention services. Such services shall consist of at least two and one-half hours of additional instruction each week for an estimated number of students in each school division at a student-to-teacher ratio of five-to-one. The estimated number of students in each school division shall be based on the actual percentage of students who are determined to need services based on the results of diagnostic pretests administered in the fall of the preceding year.
The measure codifies the Early Intervention Reading Initiative currently set forth in the Appropriations Act as an incentive grants program.
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HISTORY
- 01/09/02 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/07/02 022288760
- 01/09/02 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/30/02 House: Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/02 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/06/02 House: Continued to 2003 in Appropriations (25-Y 0-N)