Senate Republicans Introduce Education Recovery Plan

Liz Gullett

Mar 19, 2021

On Thursday, members of the Senate Republican Caucus introduced a plan to help the state’s K-12 education system recover from a year of academic losses brought on by COVID-19. The plan seeks to provide tools and resources to help parents, teachers, and administrators get students back on track and implements changes to the state’s educational system. Aspects of the plan include:

- Requires school districts to offer individual academic assessment and recovery plans by May 15.
- By August 14 teachers would be asked to develop learning recovery plans for students in every subject for parental review.
- Provides parents the express authority to retain a child to retake this year’s grade next year.
- Require certain benchmark data to be made public.
- Delay’s implementation of the third grade reading loss retention law until next school year.
- Temporarily suspends the M-STEP standardized test for the current academic year.

The eleven-bill package was referred to the Senate Education and Career Readiness Committee for consideration.

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