The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education approves the state’s first accountability plan to measure success in kindergarten through second grade. State Superintendent of Education Dr. Cade Brumley says the state has lacked a strong measure on how students K-through-second graders were performing, especially when it comes to their reading skills
“And it will also be an additional tool in the toolbox to focus efforts on overcoming longstanding literacy issues in our state with our foundational learners,” said Brumley.
Moving forward in kindergarten, first and second-grade students will receive an age and developmentally appropriate literacy screener at the beginning and end of the year. Brumley said they’ll look at their performance level and how it grew over the course of a year.
“And that will give us the opportunity to communicate clearly with parents the status and progress of their children, and it will also focus additional attention in schools on those foundational literacy levels,” said Brumley.
Students will also begin taking a literacy indicator during the 2024-25 school year, which will measure early literacy skills.
Brumley said the department will continue to focus on foundational literacy and a back-to-the-basics approach that includes phonics.
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