Supplemental Funding for Literacy Coaching

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53F-2-424
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Supplemental Funding for Literacy Coaching
2026 GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Chief Sponsor: Kathleen A. Riebe
House Sponsor:
LONG TITLE
General Description:
This bill provides supplemental funding for literacy coaching.
Highlighted Provisions:
This bill:
defines terms; and
provides supplemental funding for literacy coaching to local education agencies and
certain small schools, based on average student performance on a benchmark reading
assessment.
Money Appropriated in this Bill:
None
Other Special Clauses:
This bill provides a special effective date.
Utah Code Sections Affected:
ENACTS:
53F-2-424
, Utah Code Annotated 1953
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section
53F-2-424
is enacted to read:
53F-2-424
. Supplemental funding for literacy coaching.
(1)
As used in this section, "benchmark reading assessment" means the assessment
described in Section
53E-4-307
.
(2)
(a)
If the average student performance within an LEA on the benchmark reading
assessment is below the statewide average on the benchmark reading assessment, the
state board shall provide additional funding to the LEA to provide additional literacy
coaching support, as described in Section
53
E-3-1002, in the following amounts:
(i)
except as provided in Subsection
(1)(b)
, an amount equivalent to half of a
full-time employee; and
(ii)
for an LEA with fewer than 300 students that demonstrates below typical growth
on the assessment, an amount equivalent to one full-time employee.
(b)
If the average student performance within a school on the benchmark reading
assessment described in Section
53E-4-307
is below the statewide average on the
benchmark reading assessment and the students demonstrate, on average, well below
typical growth on the benchmark reading assessment, the state board shall provide
additional funding to the school to provide additional literacy coaching support, as
described in Section
53
E-3-1002, in an amount equivalent to one full-time employee.
(3)
The state board shall distribute funding described in Subsection (2) based on benchmark
reading assessment data from the year preceding the relevant fiscal year.
Section 2.
Effective Date.
This bill takes effect on
July 1, 2026
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