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Amends the School Code. Provides for dyslexia screening guidelines and rules. Requires the State Board of Education to employ at least 5 dyslexia specialists or dyslexia therapists with a minimum of 5 years of field experience in screening, identifying, and treating dyslexia and related disorders to provide technical assistance and training. Provides that, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, each school district must screen students in grades kindergarten through second (and in higher grades under certain circumstances) for the risk factors of dyslexia using a universal screener approved by the State Board. Sets forth what the screening must include. Provides for additional screening for a student who is determined to be at risk, or at some risk, for dyslexia to determine if a student has the characteristics of dyslexia. Requires the use of a multi-tiered system of support framework if screening indicates that a student has some risk factors for dyslexia or has the characteristics of dyslexia. Sets forth provisions concerning exceptions to screening, dyslexia intervention services, and reporting. Effective July 1, 2020.

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Lindsay Parkhurst (R)*,  Jonathan Carroll (D),  Mary Edly-Allen (D),  LaToya Greenwood (D),  Yehiel Kalish (D),  Theresa Mah (D),  Charlie Meier (R),  Anna Moeller (D),  Bob Morgan (D),  Michelle Mussman (D),  Keith Sommer (R),  Anne Stava-Murray (D), 

Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee (on 06/23/2020)

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