Legislative education committees tackling literacy improvements
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. MONTPELIER â With next Fridayâs crossover deadline approaching, the House and Senate Education Committees are both working on bills aimed at improving literacy among the stateâs youngest learners. The Senate proposal, which is a committee draft, and the House version, H. 101, date back to efforts made last year at responding to a 2019 dip in Vermontâs literacy scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The 2019 scores showed that the stateâs fourth and eighth graders, while above the national...