{"id":4373,"date":"2023-07-21T13:29:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T13:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2023-07-21T14:10:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T14:10:45","slug":"education-watch-phonics-based-literacy-signed-into-law-union-boss-angry-for-some-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4373","title":{"rendered":"Education Watch \u2013 Phonics-Based Literacy SIGNED Into Law, Union Boss Angry For Some Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-phonics-based-literacy-signed-into-law-union-boss-angry-for-some-reason\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-phonics-based-literacy-signed-into-law-union-boss-angry-for-some-reason\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/strong>: \u201cAssembly and Senate lawmakers approved the bill in bipartisan votes late last month. Kitchens said Wednesday the reading bill could be \u2018the most important thing\u2019 lawmakers accomplish this session.\u201d Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/07\/19\/gov-tony-evers-signs-sweeping-phonics-based-reading-bill-into-law\/70390981007\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-4316\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Staff-Quinton-Klabon-150x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"Quinton Klabon\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Additional context from IRG Senior Research Director Quinton Klabon:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is a significant improvement from the status quo. Much of what IRG <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-10-26-IRG-Get-Right-on-Reading-FINAL.pdf\">proposed<\/a> in 2022 is now law. If implemented well, this will improve the trajectory of our state drastically!<\/li>\n<li>It is important that charter and voucher schools can continue to do what works. As with federal COVID relief oversight, IRG will monitor Right to Read\u2019s implementation, including for choice schools.<\/li>\n<li>Governor Evers included <a href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/WIGOV\/bulletins\/36619a8\">whole paragraphs<\/a> on how kids learning to read is \u201conly one small part\u201d of education and that we must spend a larger amount of money if we expect children to learn. That was not enough for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/2023\/weac-wsra-statement-on-signing-of-ab-321-literacy-policy-changes\">Wisconsin Education Association Council<\/a>, which is \u201cprofoundly disappointed with provisions\u2026developed in backroom deals.\u201d No word yet on their disappointment regarding Wisconsin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationsreportcard.gov\/profiles\/stateprofile\/overview\/WI?cti=PgTab_GapComparisons&amp;chort=1&amp;sub=RED&amp;sj=WI&amp;fs=Grade&amp;st=MN&amp;year=2022R3&amp;sg=National%20School%20Lunch%20Eligibility%3A%20Eligible%20vs.%20Not%20Eligible&amp;sgv=Eligible&amp;sgvs=desc&amp;ts=Single%20Year&amp;tss=2022R3&amp;sfj=NP\">reading worse<\/a> than Mississippi, Louisiana, and Kentucky.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-phonics-based-literacy-signed-into-law-union-boss-angry-for-some-reason\/ From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: \u201cAssembly and Senate lawmakers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":3382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4375,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions\/4375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}