Relating to measures to support kindergarten readiness and early literacy and numeracy skills for public school students, including an early childhood parental support program and prekindergarten programs in public schools, and to funding under the Foundation School Program for certain school districts and to support those measures.
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New early literacy and numeracy instruments must be administered to students in kindergarten through third grade to measure foundational skills in reading and mathematics.
Teachers must complete literacy and mathematics achievement academies with specific training requirements based on grade level, including new intervention academies for foundational skills.
Parents can now opt their children out of early literacy and numeracy instrument administration with written request.
Reading intervention programs are now required for students at risk of not achieving satisfactory performance on third grade assessments.
New grant program established to help school districts plan the school year and qualify for incentive funding under Section 48.0051.
Stipends for completing literacy and mathematics academies are now available for teachers in grades above third grade, previously limited to K-3.
New section clarifies that nothing in the reading assessment requirements supersedes federal or state special education laws.
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