Bipartisan Senate Bill Aims to Help Students Learn to Read
· Texas Border Business
U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) have introduced the Improving America’s Literacy Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at enhancing literacy education. This legislation allocates federal funds to focus on five essential pillars of literacy based on the Science of Reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. Recent assessments reveal a significant decline in reading proficiency among students, with 33% of eighth graders reading below basic levels. The bill seeks to redirect funding away from outdated teaching methods, ensuring that resources support evidence-based reading instruction to improve literacy outcomes nationwide.
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