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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every school district in Virginia is now mandated to have a literacy basal[/quote]

The new phonics curriculum was rolled out a couple years ago, in anticipation of this new mandate.  I guess it wasn't sufficient?  [/quote]

The state passed a law - backed by everyone from local northern Virginia NAACPs to dyslexia groups in the state to basically people's dogs, everyone - that required actual good language arts curricula. VDOE picked some options. FCPS had to pick from among those options. The phonics was designed from a start as a stop-gap until a more comprehensive curricula was picked from the options the state hadn't yet set. This was always part of the plan. The curriculum options for FCPS schools hadn't been changed in ages.

Phonics isn't enough anyway. There needs to be [url=https://knowledgematterscampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/FiveEssentialFeatures.pdf]knowledge based reading[/url] for older grades, [url=https://www.aft.org/ae/summer2017/hochman_wexler]direct writing instruction[/url], actual grammar, all that good stuff.

The new curriculum gets decent ratings from EdReports for those things.[/quote]

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