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Session of 2026
HOUSE BILL No. 2743
By Committee on Education
Requested by Representative Brantley
2-6
AN ACT concerning education; relating to the Kansas blueprint for
literacy; requiring the state board of regents and the state department of
education to ensure that no teacher preparation program include content
related to diversity, equity and inclusion principles; providing an
extended period for retired and substitute teachers to complete certain
required literacy training; amending K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 74-32,294 and
repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 74-32,294 is hereby amended to read as
follows: 74-32,294. (a) The state board of regents and the state board of
education shall collaborate to:
(a)(1) Jointly approve micro-credential requirements for in-service
teachers or certification requirements for pre-service teachers at state
educational institutions in the science of reading and structured literacy;
(b)(2) develop or make accessible professional development
programs and micro-credential courses for all in-service early childhood
teachers, general education teachers and special education teachers at low
or no cost to such teachers. Such programs and courses shall be delivered
by national online learning programs or accredited Kansas postsecondary
educational institutions;
(c)(3) ensure that all pre-service teacher preparation programs at state
educational institutions are based on the science of reading and structured
literacy and no such teacher preparation education program includes
coursework, training or instructional content related to diversity, equity
and inclusion principles as a condition of program approval or teacher
licensure;
(d)(4) publish standards and course progressions to achieve
transparency of Kansas reading education programs; and
(e)(5) provide data for the program to the director of literacy
education that tracks the science of reading and structured literacy training
progression of in-service and pre-service early childhood and elementary
teachers, special education teachers and paraprofessionals, reading
specialists and early childhood and elementary administrators for all
school districts in the state.
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(b) Any requirement by the state board of education for elementary
teachers to complete approved training in the science of reading and
structured literacy or other training to achieve a seal of literacy within a
certain period shall provide substitute and retired teachers an additional
two years to complete such training.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 74-32,294 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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