Existing law provides for various reading programs for pupils in specified grades, including the Comprehensive Reading Leadership Program Act of 1996, the Elementary School Intensive Reading Program, and the Governor’s Reading Award Program.
This bill would appropriate $100,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the purpose of contracting for a study that identifies reading programs in schools that maintain kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 6, inclusive, where the performance of 75% of the pupils was at or above the 80th percentile on the reading portion of the achievement tests administered pursuant to the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program.