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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6224
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 2361
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
REP. BOLINSKY, 106th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEVELOPMENT OF STANDARDS FOR
EARLY-DETECTION OF DYSLEXIA AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF
INSTRUCTIONALLY ROBUST, EVIDENCE -BASED READING AND
WRITING STRATEGIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That title 10 of the general statutes be amended to (1) establish a 1
task force to develop policies and procedures for early detection and 2
implementation of statewide standards of evidence-based, in-district 3
interventions to prevent dyslexic students from falling behind, (2) 4
require that individualized education programs be developed by a 5
collaborative process that includes the diagnosed student or designee, 6
family, physicians, special education professionals, teachers and 7
administrators, (3) require the state to provide funding for 8
interventions, in whole or in part, that is based on a pre-determined, 9
published formula to be determined by evidence-based analysis, 10
according to the statewide standards, and (4) require, with state 11
funding in whole or in part, the intervention to be mandated and 12
subject to implementation by all publicly-funded school districts, 13
magnet schools and charter schools. 14 Proposed Bill No. 6224
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Statement of Purpose:
To establish a task force to develop standards for implementation of
research-based, early diagnosis strategies to both detect and treat
dyslexia beginning in elementary schools.