Gov. Dunleavy and state legislators celebrated the passage of the Alaska Reads Act on Tuesday in Anchorage. It provides funding for pre-K programs, uses reading screeners to identify students falling behind and gives grants to low-performing districts.
It provides funding for pre-K programs, uses reading screeners to identify students falling behind and gives grants to low-performing districts. It also requires districts to develop individual reading improvement plans for students who need additional help.
The bill narrowly passed the House in the final hours of the legislative session. At the press conference, Senate majority leader Peter Micciche said the types of reading interventions funded in the bill helped his own daughter. “This bill does not help rural Alaska,” he said. “If you were to write a bill for big schools, I would write it just like this.”
“My concerns are rooted in the protection of small schools, Alaska Native children, Alaska Native language speaking students, that such an onerous policy would unintentionally disadvantage these groups to their peers,” she said.
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