DYSLEXIA; EDUCATION                                                                                         S.B. 380 (S-2)-383 (S-2):

                                                                                                                                                                                SUMMARY OF BILL

                                                                                                                                                REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE

Senate Bill 380 (Substitute S-2 as reported)

Senate Bill 381 (Substitute S-2 as reported)

Senate Bill 382 (Substitute S-2 as reported)

Senate Bill 383 (Substitute S-2 as reported)

Sponsor:   Senator Jeff Irwin (S.B. 380)

                            Senator Lana Theis (S.B. 381)

                            Senator Dayna Polehanki (S.B. 382)

                            Senator Jim Runestad (S.B. 383)

Committee:   Education and Career Readiness

CONTENT

Senate Bill 380 (S-2)  would amend the Revised School Code to do the following:

 --     Require the board of a school district or intermediate school district (ISD) or the board of directors of a public school academy (PSA) to ensure that, by the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year and each subsequent year, qualifying pupils enrolled in that district, ISD, or PSA were screened for characteristics of dyslexia and difficulties in learning to decode accurately and efficiently using a reliable and valid universal screening assessment.

 --     Requires a district, ISD, or PSA, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year to ensure that additional assessment data pertaining to the pupil were gathered and to determine whether the pupil had difficulties with word reading in making a decision regarding intervention placement.

 --     Require the board of a school district, ISD, or PSA to ensure, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, that a pupil who was an English language learner was provided with one year of English language development skills before an assessment was administered.

 --     Require a school district, ISD, or PSA to ensure that, by the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year, a pupil who exhibited characteristics of dyslexia was provided a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) and prescribe the requirements an MTSS would have to meet.

 --     Prohibit instructional methods and curriculum resources that included methods that minimized the importance of primarily using letter-sound information to decode or recognize unknown words, among other methods.

 --     Require a pupil's individual reading improvement plans to be reconciled with the bill's requirements.

 --     Require the board of a school district, ISD, or PSA to ensure that the necessary accommodations or equipment was provided to a pupil with characteristics of dyslexia.

 --     Specify that, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, if a district or PSA determined that a pupil needed tier 2 support or was going to be given an individual reading improvement plan, the board of the district, ISD, or PSA would have to ensure the pupil's parent or guardian was sent a notification, and specify the information that would have to be included in the notice.

 --     Require the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) to provide guidance on the development of dyslexia expertise for individuals responsible for supporting the development of certain methods and infrastructures to meet the needs of pupils with dyslexia.

 --     Require the MDE, by January 1, 2024, and in conjunction with the advisory committee, to develop or adopt and make available to the public a dyslexia resource guide.