Schools must comply with ‘science of reading’ approach
Diana Dombrowski
Rockland/Westchester Journal News | USA TODAY NETWORK
“In addition to funding clean energy, gun violence prevention and housing, New York’s state budget addresses a top concern in education: students’ low reading scores.
• Gov. Kathy Hochul pushed for schools to be required to use a phonics based approach to teach reading, and the state budget directs the state Education Department to produce best practices for teaching reading, grounded in the so-called science of reading, by early 2025. School districts will have to verify annually that they are following the practices in the early grades.”