Section 10-14hh - Implementation of reading curriculum model or program in grades prekindergarten to three(a)(1) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, for the school year commencing July 1, 2023, and each school year thereafter, each local and regional board of education shall fully implement a comprehensive reading curriculum model or program for grades kindergarten to grade three, inclusive, that has been reviewed and approved pursuant to section 10-14ii.(2)(A) For the school years commencing July 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024, a local or regional board of education that has not been granted a waiver pursuant to subsection (c) of this section and is not fully implementing a comprehensive reading curriculum model or program for grades kindergarten to grade three, inclusive, in accordance with the provisions of subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of this section, shall begin partial implementation of such comprehensive reading curriculum model or program, and for the school year commencing July 1, 2025, and each school year thereafter, such board shall fully implement such comprehensive reading curriculum model or program in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section.(B) For the school year commencing July 1, 2024, and each school year thereafter, a local or regional board of education that has been granted a waiver pursuant to subsection (c) of this section shall implement a comprehensive reading curriculum model or program other than a model or program reviewed and approved pursuant to section 10-14ii in accordance with the provisions of such waiver.(b) On or before July 1, 2025, and biennially thereafter, each local and regional board of education shall notify the Center for Literacy Research and Reading Success, established pursuant to section 10-14gg, of which comprehensive reading curriculum model or program that the board is implementing pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.(c) The Commissioner of Education, in consultation with the director of the Center for Literacy Research and Reading Success, shall, upon request of a local or regional board of education, grant a waiver from the provisions of subsection (a) of this section to such board to implement a comprehensive reading curriculum model or program other than a model or program reviewed and recommended pursuant to section 10-14ii, if the commissioner determines that such other comprehensive reading curriculum model or program is (1) evidenced-based and scientifically-based, and (2) focused on competency in the following areas of reading: Oral language, phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, rapid automatic name or letter name fluency and reading comprehension. A request for a waiver under this subsection shall include (A) data collected from the reading assessments described in section 10-14t that has been disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, eligibility for free or reduced priced lunches, students whose primary language is not English and students with disabilities, and (B) a strategy to address remaining reading achievement gaps, as defined in section 10-14u.Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10-14hh
Amended by P.A. 23-0167,S. 20 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2023 Regular Session, eff. 6/28/2023.Added by P.A. 21-0002, S. 394 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2021 Special Session, eff. 7/1/2021.