A majority of the Madison school district’s teachers are now trained in reading instruction under a 2023 state law that overhauled Wisconsin’s approach to literacy education.
But 179 of the district’s teachers have yet to complete the training and another 25 have yet to start, according to district officials.
The training is mandatory for certain educators and administrators in Wisconsin under Act 20, which state lawmakers passed two years ago with the goal of improving reading scores. The law embraces a literacy teaching approach often called the “science of reading” that focuses on phonics — how words look and sound — as the basis of teaching kids how to read…