Wisconsin students in kindergarten through second grade would be screened for literacy skills at least three times each school year under a bill headed to the governor’s desk.
Assembly Democrat and educator LaKeshia Myers of Milwaukee is a vocal supporter of the GOP-authored legislation which passed Tuesday.
Myers told members, “I don’t care who introduced this bill, whether it was a Republican, whether it was a Democrat, whether it was Jesus himself, I will still go along with this bill.”
Supporters say 600-thousand Wisconsin students cannot read to grade level, and the state has the nation’s worst racial achievement gaps.
Opponents say it doesn’t make sense to screen every student, and that the bill lacks a long-term funding source.
