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Senate orders third reading of sweeping literacy bill to screen K–3 students and mandate interventions
Summary
Senators advanced S.204, a strike-all literacy bill directing universal K–3 screening, caregiver notification within 30 days for reading deficiencies, targeted interventions and teacher professional learning; the chamber concurred with an appropriations committee amendment and ordered third reading.
Senators on March 29 advanced S.204, a rewrite of Vermont’s reading-assessment law that would require universal screening of students in kindergarten through third grade, diagnostics for those identified with substantial reading deficits, caregiver notification within 30 days, and expanded teacher training and reporting requirements.
The bill’s reporter, the senator from Chittenden Central, said findings show “only about half of Vermont 3rd graders read proficiently,” and framed the measure as building on Act 28 and the state’s Literacy Advisory Council. The reporter described the bill’s core requirements: the Agency of Education (AOE) would publish an approved list of universal screeners;…
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