Progress Made
- LETRS training to Arizona educators (3,500).
- Literacy coaches and intervention specialists for the lowest performing schools (25 coaches) ($3.1 M federal COVID relief funding)
- State funded KEA (Kindergarten entry assessment) ($1.5M federal COVID relief funding).
- Funding for Dyslexia training and identifying school designees ($1.3M federal COVID relief funding).
- Funding for educator reading exams $1M (federal COVID relief funding)
- Building educator capacity in the science of reading ($47.2M federal COVID relief funding)
- Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant (40 sites) ($20M federal funding)
- Project CALL (Collaborating to Accelerating Learning and Literacy) creating state and local literacy hubs ($10M federal COVID relief funding)