Section 53002 Of Chapter 15. Comprehensive Reading Leadership Program From California Education Code >> Division 4. >> Title 2. >> Part 28. >> Chapter 15.
53002
. (a) County offices of education may apply to the State Board
of Education to design a reading leadership program and develop
materials that focus on systematically explicit phonics instruction,
phonemic awareness, sound-symbol relationships, decoding, word-attack
skills, spelling instruction, diagnosis of reading deficiencies,
research on how children learn to read, research on how proficient
readers read, the structure of the English language, relationships
between reading, writing, and spelling, planning and delivery of
appropriate reading instruction based on assessment and evaluation,
and independent pupil reading of high quality books and the
relationship of that reading to improved reading performance.
(b) From the applications received pursuant to this section, the
State Board of Education shall select one county office of education
that has a proposed reading leadership program and a proposed
materials development program that, in the judgment of the State
Board of Education, will provide an effective reading leadership
training program addressing the elements listed in subdivision (a) of
this section and meet the requirements of subdivision (a) of Section
53003. The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to allocate
from moneys appropriated to it an amount sufficient to fund the
reading leadership program selected pursuant to this section.