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Kansas board backs small voluntary summer literacy pilot and asks higher education to help scale a statewide plan
Summary
The Kansas State Board of Education affirmed a voluntary, small-scale three-year summer intervention pilot targeted at high‑risk early-grade readers and asked higher‑education partners to help design research and practicum supports to link short-term gains to sustained in‑year instruction.
The State Board of Education on a presentation-heavy agenda on literacy endorsed a proposal to launch a small, voluntary summer literacy pilot aimed at young students identified as high risk on screeners.
Commissioner Watson, who presented the FastBridge screener trends, said the state sees an ongoing cohort of students who enter kindergarten or first grade as high risk. "So we're hyper focused this morning on literacy," Watson said, describing fall/winter/spring screening and noting that 48% of kindergarten entrants attended district pre‑K,…
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