Budget Amendment ID: FY2025-S4-778

EDU 778

The Literacy Lab

Messrs. DiDomenico and O'Connor moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 7010-0033, by adding the following words:- "; provided further, that not less than $350,000 shall be expended for The Literacy Lab, for the purposes of placing recent high school graduates in classrooms or community-based early childhood centers to provide evidence-based literacy intervention services to at-risk Pre-K students, and to provide participants with training, coaching, and professional development for at least 800 paid hours within a Pre-K classroom during a school year, with the goal of diversifying the educator pipeline and educating participants on the teacher education and licensure process in Massachusetts”; and by striking out the figure “$5,298,364” and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- “$5,648,364”.