The Campaign for Grade Level Reading
According to the Alabama State Department of Education, 2018-2019 Scantron test results, the State Average shows that 53% of Alabama's 4th grade students were not proficient in reading in 2019.Alabama has received the designation to become a Campaign for Grade Level Reading state. Governor Kay Ivey called the Children’s Policy Councils to action to develop local campaigns for Grade Level Reading in sixty-seven communities across the state.
With this mandate the Department of Early Childhood Education have begun working with Children’s Policy Councils to implement pilot work in Jefferson, Marshall, Monroe, Macon, and Randolph counties to help children to become proficient readers by the end of third grade.
The campaign will focus on priorities; birth to eight, health and well-being, family engagement, special education, English language learners, struggling readers and learning outside the classroom populations. The pilot work will consist of evaluating needs, data, existing resources, barriers and creating a literacy plan of improvement specific to the community.
