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WI Reading Plan Gets Shelved

WI Reading Plan Gets Shelved

Wisconsin’s governor has vetoed a new proposal that would have screened kids as young as kindergarten to make sure they’re ready to read.

Governor Tony Evers on Friday scuttled what was called the reading readiness plan. Republican lawmakers pushed it through to help kids across the state catch-up on reading. Nearly two-thirds of kids in the state cannot read or write at grade level. Lawmakers wanted to focus on younger kids so kids would not start-out behind, and never catch-up. Many Democrats and the state’s superintendent fought the plan because it required more testing. The governor said in his veto message that more testing won’t help kids read any better.

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