1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education; amending local literacy plans;amending Minnesota 
1.3 	Statutes 2012, section 120B.12, subdivision 4a.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 120B.12, subdivision 4a, is amended to 
1.6 	read:
1.7 		Subd. 4a.Local literacy plan. Consistent with this section, a school district must 
1.8 	adopt a local literacy plan to have every child reading at or above grade level no later than 
1.9 	the end of grade 3. The plan must include  the following:
1.10 	(1) a process to assess students' level of reading proficiency~~,~~;
1.11 	(2) a process to notify and involve parents~~, intervene with~~;
1.12 	(3) intervention methods for  students who are not reading at or above grade level~~,~~ 
1.13 	~~and identify and meet~~;
1.14 	(4) identification of  staff development needs, including a program to meet those 
1.15 	needs;
1.16 	(5) a description of how schools in the district will provide explicit and systematic 
1.17 	instruction in basic phonology and language decoding skills;
1.18 	(6) a description of how the schools in the district will determine the proper reading 
1.19 	intervention strategy for a student and the process for intensifying or modifying the 
1.20 	reading strategy in order to obtain measurable reading progress; and
1.21 	(7) data to support the effectiveness of an assessment used to screen and identify a 
1.22 	student's level of reading proficiency. 
1.23 	The district must post its literacy plan on the official school district Web site.