The state has proposed new regulations setting out screening to gauge how well young students are reading.
The Alaska Board of Education and Early Development is expected to make a decision on the proposed regulations next month.
Susan McCauley is director of teaching and learning support in the department of education. She says the Legislature recently approved $320,000 for early literacy screening assessments. She says the proposed regulations are meant to provide clarity around those assessments.
The proposed regulations call for districts to screen the reading levels of all students in kindergarten through second grade as well as third graders who struggled with reading at the end of second grade.