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(The Center Square) – The Virginia Board of Education took another step in its efforts toward improving students’ literacy when it approved a new list of core instructional programs for
D.C.’s version of mayoral control of schools suppresses accurate data and discussion about education issues.
The budget is subject to final approval by the Legislature by mid-June, but the governor seemed confident that dyslexia screening would survive last-minute political wrangling. California is one of only 10 states nationwide that does not screen students for dyslexia.
English learner advocates and the teachers union had opposed universal dyslexia screening.
The Early Literacy Success Initiative would pay for reading tutors, teacher training and require a shift to teaching methods