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Janesville committee details Act 20 literacy rollout, AP participation and benefits timeline
Summary
District staff briefed the board on implementation of Act 20 third-grade literacy screening (AIMSweb Plus), plans for reading interventions and monitoring, differences in AP participation across high schools, staff recruitment efforts and an upcoming benefits renewal timeline; no board action was taken.
At the March 11 meeting, the Janesville School District's Policy and Curriculum Committee (PPC) update reviewed the district's rollout of Act 20 requirements, academic program participation and the district's employee benefits timeline.
Staff described Act 20 as the state law requiring that public-school students read proficiently by the end of third grade. The district is using AIMSweb Plus, chosen by the Department of Public Instruction as the required screener, to assess early literacy skills for students in 4K through third grade. The screener components include letter naming fluency, letter-word sound fluency, phoneme segmentation, auditory vocabulary and oral reading fluency as appropriate to grade level,…
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