2018 -- H 7007 | |
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2018 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO EDUCATION - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Lombardi, Coughlin, Williams, and Hull | |
Date Introduced: January 03, 2018 | |
Referred To: House Health, Education & Welfare | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Chapter 16-96 of the General Laws entitled "The College and Career |
2 | Success for All Students Act" is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section: |
3 | 16-96-4.1. Professional development related to reading disabilities. |
4 | (a) The department of education shall provide professional development opportunities |
5 | related to reading disabilities, including dyslexia, to school district personnel. The professional |
6 | development shall be made available to general education, special education, basic skills and |
7 | English as a second language teachers, instruction support staff, administrators, supervisors, child |
8 | study team members, and speech-language specialists. The professional development |
9 | opportunities shall be designed to account for the various manners in which different school |
10 | district personnel interact with, or develop instructional programs for, students with reading |
11 | disabilities. |
12 | (b) The Rhode Island board of education shall require certain teaching staff members to |
13 | annually complete at least two (2) hours of professional development instruction on the screening, |
14 | intervention, accommodation, and use of technology for students with reading disabilities, |
15 | including dyslexia. The professional development requirement shall apply to general education |
16 | teachers employed in grades kindergarten through grade three (3), special education, basic skills, |
17 | and English as a second language teachers, reading specialists, learning disabilities teacher |
18 | consultants, and speech-language specialists. The board of education may make the professional |
19 | development opportunities available to other instruction or support staff as the board deems |
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1 | appropriate. |
2 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO EDUCATION - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT | |
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1 | This act would provide for professional development opportunities relating to reading |
2 | disabilities and would require two (2) hours of professional development instruction pertaining to |
3 | reading disabilities for certain general education teachers. |
4 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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