Board hears updates on new dyslexia laws, graduation requirements and student-led healthy-technology conversations

At the Dec. 16 meeting the Bloomfield Hills School Board received updates from its curriculum and instruction subcommittee on implementation planning for recently enacted Michigan literacy and dyslexia laws, high school curriculum requests, graduation-requirement questions and a student-led "healthy technology" community conversation that is continuing into January.

Trustees said the subcommittee reviewed PA 146 and PA 147 of 2024 (state literacy and dyslexia legislation) and the district's near-term implementation steps. The laws require screening and other literacy interventions, and the Michigan Department of Education will issue additional implementation guidance, trustees were told. One trustee asked whether the state would provide funding for implementation; staff responded the current guidance appears policy-driven and that funding details were expected to be clearer in June as the Michigan…