COLUMBUS, Ohio – Thirty-three Ohio schools and districts, including several in Northeast Ohio, will spend $45.9 million in federal funding to improve reading instruction – from hiring coaches to help teachers improve how they teach reading to creating programs for families to foster literacy at home.
The funding comes from a $60 million grant Ohio received from the U.S. Department of Education to help boost the state’s transition to how schools teach reading.
Gov. Mike DeWine and the legislature passed a law in 2023 that requires schools to teach under a general group of principles known as “the science of reading,” which emphasizes phonics, sounding out words and vocabulary. The most recent research shows that the science of reading approach is more successful at teaching kids to read…