READ Act dyslexia screening rules leave gaps, advocates say

Colorado schools will begin screening students for signs of dyslexia in the 2027-28 school year. Tatevosian Yana/Shutterstock On Thursday, the Colorado State Board of Education is scheduled to vote to finalize rules for a 2025 law requiring schools to screen every student in kindergarten through third grade for signs of dyslexia. Finalizing these rules would set the binding legal playbook for local districts, determining which tests they can use, when they give them and what information parents receive starting in fall 2027.Under the proposed rules, every family would receive a letter containing its child's screening results. What the rules leave unresolved is whether every child takes the full battery of tasks built to spot dyslexia, or only those flagged by an initial round of general testing.The rules also don’t spell out how schools should give each approved test or which results should flag a child as at risk.

This excerpt comes from the named source. Read the original for the full reporting.