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On July 30^th, the Senate HELP committee held its first significant mark-up of K-12 bills this Congress. 萝卜AV视频sent a letter outlining its positions on the bills and amendments under consideration, which are summarized below.

• S. 5046 is a bipartisan bill that would prohibit the Department of Education from transferring responsibility for programs administered by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education to the Department of Labor through interagency agreements (IAAs). It would also prohibit the Department of Education from transferring responsibility for programs administered by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to the Department of Health and Human Services. The legislation passed the committee by a vote of 13-9. An amendment requiring the Department to submit a public report to Congress on the cost of implementing its interagency agreements, including accounting for staff that were detailed or transferred to other agencies, also passed. The bill's future in the Senate is unclear, but the bill sponsors hope the bill 鈥渇actors into appropriations discussions.鈥� The bill would conflict with legislative efforts in the House, where the House Education and Workforce Committee voted two weeks ago to codify some of the Department鈥檚 IAAs.
• The READ Act is a bipartisan bill intended to align federal literacy efforts with the science of reading by shifting federal funds to support only evidence-based reading instruction, similar to already-enacted state legislation. It would modify the Comprehensive Literacy State Development (CLSD) grant program in ESEA to ensure target these competitive grants to the lowest-performing states鈥攄efined as states ranking within the bottom 20% for two consecutive NAEP assessment cycles in 4th-grade reading. States would also have to evaluate teacher preparation programs and update K-8 teaching licensure standards to ensure educators are fully trained in evidence-based literacy instruction. This bill passed with a vote of 20-2.
• The 21^st Century Dyslexia Act is bipartisan federal legislation designed to alter how public schools identify and support students with dyslexia by removing it from the broad 鈥淪pecific Learning Disability鈥� category in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and establishing it as a distinct disability category. The of disability organizations that support dyslexic students do not support this legislation or it鈥檚 proposed definition of dyslexia. This bill passed with a vote of 12-10.