A parent asked Coventry Public Schools to pay for Orton-Gillingham structured literacy training for special educators and reading specialists. She said only 37.5% of students are proficient in English language arts and that dyslexia affects about 20% of students. She described paying more than $3,000 this year for private tutoring and declining a reading goal in her son’s IEP. Earlier, the assistant superintendent reported that a RIDE audit of federal Title grants found the district met most requirements, with a corrective plan for Title One schoolwide plans. No action was scheduled on the parent’s request. The committee’s next meeting is October 22.
Coventry, R.I. — A Coventry mother who works as a reading specialist asked the Coventry School Committee on Thursday night to invest in Orton-Gillingham training for the district’s special educators and reading specialists, according to the Coventry School Committee’s published meeting recording.
She said that only 37.5% of Coventry students are proficient on the English language arts portion of the state test. She said dyslexia affects about 20% of the student body, “identified or not.”…