{"id":9476,"date":"2024-03-13T04:03:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T05:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=9476"},"modified":"2024-03-13T14:58:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T14:58:35","slug":"wisconsin-gop-lawmakers-blast-state-as-committee-oks-new-reading-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=9476","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers Blast State as Committee OKs New Reading Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wisconsin\u2019s push to help children in the state\u2019s schools read better took its next step forward Monday.<\/p>\n

The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee approved four new reading programs for the state\u2019s public schools.<\/p>\n

JFC co-chairman Mark Born, R-Beaver Dam, said more than 60% of Wisconsin fourth-graders currently cannot read or write at grade level. Born said changing the way Wisconsin teachers teach reading is the obvious first step.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetween 60 and 70% of our kids can\u2019t read at the proper level. Who runs that system now folks? Who\u2019s the one providing the council and the guidance to all of our school districts on that now? [Department of Instruction],\u201d Born said during Monday\u2019s hearing. \u201cDPI is part of the failure of our kids to read. What are we doing? We had to create legislation\u2026so our kids can read.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new reading curricula are required under Wisconsin\u2019s read overhaul law, known as Act 20. But Born said schools are not required to use the new lessons. He did say local schools won\u2019t get any state money to buy textbooks or lesson plans for any curriculum that is not part of the Act 20 overhaul.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not an expert in curriculum. I am not an expert in education. That\u2019s why, in the bill, we created a panel of experts to be brought together,\u201d Born explained. \u201c[That] a panel of experts, including people from DPI, said these are the best that meet the standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

JFC Democrats opposed the new reading plans.<\/p>\n

They fear lawsuits from local schools and don\u2019t like the four choices offered.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are saying that all of this isn\u2019t a mandate, you know this is just what you\u2019re going to get a grant for. Well, it is a mandate because what we\u2019ve done is we\u2019ve outlawed the teaching of three queuing and similar holistic approaches, and we\u2019re saying this is how we want to teach reading. That\u2019s a good thing, but we are also narrowing down the choices that schools have to simply four curricula,\u201d Rep. Deb Andraca, D-Whitefish Bay, said.<\/p>\n

Advocates, like Quinton Klabon with the Institute for Reforming Government, said the new curriculum is the \u201cfirst comprehensive reading legislation in decades. It will replacediscredited reading curricula<\/a>\u00a0that have wrecked most public and private schools,upgrade teachers\u2019 skills<\/a>\u00a0in classic, phonics-based methods, reflect those changes inuniversity teacher programs<\/a>, and get parents more involved if their child is behind in reading.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Joint Finance Committee did the right thing by trusting teachers, school leaders, and dyslexia experts,\u201d Klabon added.<\/p>\n

The new reading lessons will be available for schools to use in the next school year.<\/p>\n

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Benjamin Yount is a contributor to The Center Square.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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