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2023 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 110
BY REPRESENTATIVE HUGHES
A RESOLUTION
To designate Wednesday, May 3, 2023, as Literacy Day at the state capitol.
WHEREAS, 72% of Louisiana's fourth grade students do not read proficiently, and
dyslexia is a specific learning disability that affects as many as one in five people, 20% of
the population; and
WHEREAS, students who do not read proficiently by the end of the third grade are
four times more likely to drop out of school, and those who have not mastered at least a
basic level of reading proficiency are nearly six times as likely to leave school without
earning a diploma; and
WHEREAS, the Center for Literacy & Learning was founded in 1992 and is
celebrating its thirty-first anniversary facilitating leading-edge scientific research,
knowledge, and best practices that improve teaching and increase student learning; and
WHEREAS, the Center for Literacy & Learning uses its nearly three hundred years
of combined professional education experience to focus on closing the achievement gap by
increasing teacher effectiveness and advancing public education reform by providing
educators who teach our most at-risk children with professional learning that is specific and
targeted to the needs of those students and their fellow teachers; and
WHEREAS, with an "in the trenches" approach, the Center for Literacy & Learning
tackles real-time challenges such as remediating struggling readers, differentiating
instruction for diverse learners, and building and sustaining collective capacity; and
WHEREAS, the Center for Literacy & Learning and the state Department of
Education have created a key partnership emphasizing the importance of improving our
state's literacy rates and launched the Literacy Coach Program in 2020; as of the 2022-2023
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school year, the Literacy Coach Program has served twenty local education agencies across
eighteen parishes and sixty-five schools and provided fifty-two literacy coaches; and
WHEREAS, in 2019, the Center for Literacy & Learning successfully advocated for
the legislative creation of the Early Literacy Commission, consisting of a body of experts
guiding the future of literacy policy and programming; and
WHEREAS, improving literacy rates in Louisiana is necessary to increase Louisiana
students' success in all other areas of their education.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend the dedicated work of the Center for
Literacy & Learning; does hereby extend gratitude for its work in improving reading
proficiency for all of Louisiana's students; and does hereby designate Wednesday, May 3,
2023, as Literacy Day at the state capitol.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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