Bill > HB1828

This bill requires the New Hampshire Department of Education to establish a comprehensive auditing process for teacher preparation programs at higher education institutions, focusing specifically on literacy instruction. The bill mandates that all educator preparation programs must ensure their students complete coursework in evidence-based literacy strategies aligned with the "science of reading" - a research-based approach to teaching reading that emphasizes phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary development. The department will be responsible for developing an auditing process with specific metrics to evaluate how effectively these programs are teaching literacy instruction, and will be required to publish the audit results on their website. Additionally, the bill stipulates that clinical teaching experiences for future educators can only occur in classrooms where practicing teachers have been trained in science of reading strategies and are actively implementing structured literacy approaches. The department of education is also authorized to create rules governing this auditing process, and the bill will take effect 60 days after its passage. While the fiscal impact is currently undetermined, the bill represents a significant effort to improve literacy instruction training for future educators in New Hampshire.

Education

https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/billinfo.aspx?id=2220&inflect=2