The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) was awarded a five-year, almost $55 million Comprehensive Literacy State Development (CLSD) grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
According to the press release, funding will be used to advance literacy skills for preschool through grade 12. An emphasis will be placed on disadvantaged children, including children living in poverty, English learners, and children with disabilities.
The Kentucky Comprehensive Literacy 2025 (KyCL 25), formerly known as The CLSD discretionary grant program, will provide competitive funding to districts to strengthen high-quality instructional resources (HQIRs) and curriculum-based professional learning for all levels.
KyCL 25 will focus on increasing student literacy achievement through four project goals:
Instructional staff will use evidence-based, literacy HQIRs to deliver coherent and aligned instruction to all students.
Instructional staff will use evidence-based, literacy HQIRs to support struggling readers to narrow the achievement gap for the target populations in a cycle of continuous improvement.
Instructional staff will be engaged in sustained, aligned, job-embedded, high-quality curriculum-based professional learning focused on a literacy HQIR.
Schools will increase family engagement in the literacy development of their student(s) and awareness of resources to aid in supplemental literacy instruction at home.
Source: WBKO
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