Amendment #932 to H4000

The Literacy Lab

Mr. Worrell of Boston moves to amend the bill in Section 2, in item 7010-0033, by inserting after the word “months”, the following: “; 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, with the goal of diversifying the educator pipeline and educating participants on the teacher education and licensure process in Massachusetts”; and in said item, by striking out the figures “$5,716,683” and inserting in place thereof the figures “6,066,683”.