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SF 3 Senate Long Description

E Relating to education; requiring and providing for school boards adoption of early reading assessment processes and intervention methods for students identified in the assessment process as needing intervention; specifying certain intervention method requirements and options; requiring school districts to identify staff development needs for reading instruction programs implementation purposes; requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to recommend multiple assessment tools to assist districts and teachers in identifying students in need of reading intervention and to make available examples of nationally recognized instructional programs providing reading intervention; requiring the board of teaching to adopt rules requiring licensed teachers renewing continuing licenses to include in renewal requirements further preparation in the application of comprehensive, scientifically based and balanced reading instruction programs and providing for the licensure of reading specialists, requiring board approved teacher preparation programs for elementary education teachers to require instruction in the application of the reading instruction programs (je, ja)