Teaching Kansas students to read gets tougher after $22.6 million federal funding cut

Teaching Kansas students to read gets tougher after $22.6 million federal funding cut

Takeaways Not every teacher knows the best way to teach students to read. Some schools still use lessons that are not grounded in evidence-based methods.  The Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling program is gaining popularity nationwide. But the federal government cut funding for the program locally.  The loss of $22.6 million in COVID relief funding jeopardizes Kansas’s efforts to address pandemic-related learning loss. Kri…