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House Bill 1270 |
House Author: Eissler |
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Effective: 6-15-07 |
Senate Sponsor: Van de Putte |
House Bill 1270 amends the Education Code to require the commissioner of education to establish an intensive reading or language intervention pilot program that was previously authorized, and it amends the existing criteria for a program that may be selected by a participating campus to require that they include scientifically based reading interventions and to specify that the methods, interventions, or tools included in the criteria must have been proven to accelerate acquisition and reading proficiency for struggling students. The bill also requires the selection of students to participate in the pilot program to be based on assessment data, with the administration of benchmark measures required at the beginning and end of the program.