Sec. 10-221i. Technical assistance. Standard of reading competency.
Sec. 10-221i. Technical assistance. Standard of reading competency. (a) The
Department of Education shall provide technical assistance to local and regional boards
of education on the development of the plans required pursuant to section 10-221h. The
department shall advise local and regional boards of education on: (1) Methods and
strategies for assessing students who are at risk of failing to learn to read by the end of
first grade; and (2) the development of in-service training programs on the teaching of
reading and assessment of reading competency for teachers in grades kindergarten to
three, inclusive.
(b) The State Board of Education shall establish a standard of reading competency
for use by local and regional boards of education to measure reading competency for
students in grades one to three, inclusive. The standard may be a requirement for a
certain score on a standardized test.
(P.A. 97-290, S. 23, 29; P.A. 98-243, S. 2, 25.)
History: P.A. 97-290 effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-243 added new Subsec. (a) re technical assistance, redesignating
the existing Subsec. (a) as Subsec. (b), and deleted former Subsec. (b) re report to the General Assembly, effective July
1, 1998 (Revisor's note: In Subsec. (a)(1) the phrase "... the teaching of the reading and ..." was changed editorially by the
Revisors to "... the teaching of reading and ...").