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Director Dack Details Governor’s K–12 Budget: Literacy, Diagnostics, Math Acceleration, CTE and Wellness
Summary
The Department of Education and Workforce outlined the executive budget’s K–12 priorities — science of reading investments, a universal K–3 diagnostic assessment, automatic math acceleration and career-technical expansion — and answered committee questions on implementation and costs.
The Department of Education and Workforce presented the executive budget proposal to the House Education Committee on Feb. 19, outlining priorities the administration says are intended to keep students “at the center” of decisions.
Director Steve Dack told the committee that the budget continues investments in four priority areas: literacy (aligned to the science of reading), learning acceleration, workforce readiness (including career-technical education) and student wellness. The department asked for continued funding for literacy coaches, the use of disadvantaged pupil impact aid (DPIA) for…
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