Nevada’s Ready by Grade 3 (RBG3) Act provides noncompetitive grants across the state, utilizing a weighted funding formula. The primary intent is to support school-based efforts to ensure that all students are proficient readers by the end of third grade. Total recommended funding for this program is $31.7 million in each year of the 2019-21 biennium, representing a 54.5% increase from the prior biennium. This ensures that all elementary schools will have an assigned literacy specialist to work with the school administrator and teachers, serve as a resource for professional development, and build master reading teachers to improve student reading achievement. In addition to funding literacy specialists and school-based professional development, RBG3 requires each LEA to:

• Develop a plan to improve literacy in elementary schools;
• Participate in statewide professional development for literacy specialists and elementary reading teachers;
• Implement intervention services and intensive instruction for students reading below grade level; and
• Monitor the reading growth of students receiving intervention services and intensive instruction.

 

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