Secondary Updates

2016-2017 READ Act Law Updates

At its March 9, 2016 meeting, the State Board of Education adopted new READ Act rules for implementation of the Colorado READ Act. The current board rules reflect changes prompted by the passage of House Bill 15-1323 in terms of READ testing timelines, assessment of kindergarten students and determination of grade level proficiency.

• The interim screener must now be administered within 30 calendar days, not instructional days, after the first day of the school year. Also, if a student falls below the cut score one time, the teacher should complete diagnostic testing within the next window of time (TBD) and a READ Plan will be initiated.

• The screener must be administered during the fall testing window AND again during the Spring testing window. We will be required to report this data to CDE as part of their READ Data Collection.

• Kindergarten will have between 60-90 days to administer the screener. We will provide a re

• commended timeline soon.

• READ Plans will need to be created sooner in the school year for all students and will be the active intervention plan for the student.

• The timeline, flowcharts and other resources have been updated to support this implementation.