{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-74-32-296","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 74-32,296","heading":"Establishment of a plan for regional centers of excellence in reading; requirements of plan.","body":"The literacy advisory committee shall develop a plan to establish six regional centers of excellence in reading. The plan shall:\n(a) Require postsecondary educational institutions to collaborate with colleges or schools of education, the center for reading at Pittsburg state university and community-based literacy organizations;\n(b) include options that would allow centers for excellence in reading to be co-located in an existing building or school of a school district, postsecondary educational institution, community facility or other facility or building, as appropriate; and\n(c) require such centers to:\n(1) Provide evaluation and identification of reading difficulties and reading disabilities, including, but not limited, dyslexia;\n(2) collaborate with school districts to develop strategic literacy plans for individual students;\n(3) collaborate with the state department of education, state board of regents and postsecondary educational institutions to support pre-service and in-service teacher training;\n(4) support the professional development and training of school-based instructional coaches;\n(5) pilot structured reading applied learning simulation laboratories for pre-service and in-service teachers;\n(6) pilot a literacy education simulation training laboratory for pre-service elementary teachers as a controlled environment for the application of the science of reading;\n(7) identify projected cost, staffing and budget impacts to develop, expand and sustain the centers for excellence and reading simulation laboratories; and\n(8) make recommendations and provide progress reports to the literacy advisory committee.","path":["Chapter 74.—STATE BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND AUTHORITIES","Article 32.—STATE BOARD OF REGENTS"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch74/074_032_0296.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:14:13Z","sha256":"a9c06a94cf76e7a5f8bd85b6e1264af2472d8f12f14ba5507cc57b7617c804df","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-74-32-295","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-74-32-301"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}