While city lawmakers and education unions last week commended the de Blasio administration for its “Reading for All” initiative that aims for every second-grader to read at grade level by 2026, they urged Department of Education officials to focus more on training Teachers to help dyslexic students.
As part of the reading effort—a portion of Mayor de Blasio’s “Equity and Excellence” initiative announced in September—the DOE is hiring 700 reading coaches to train kindergarten-through-second-grade Teachers. They will first be introduced in four high-needs districts in The Bronx and Brooklyn, then in 28 districts in the following two years.
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