SB 1012

This bill requires the Department of Public Instruction to award grants to

school districts and independent charter schools to assist with the financial costs of

replacing poorly rated reading or language arts curriculum with high-quality core

curricular materials. A grant recipient may use grant moneys to pay for the purchase

of physical copies of curriculum or licenses for access to digital copies of curriculum

and for initial professional development for teachers and support staff.

In awarding grants under the bill, DPI must give priority to applicants to which

any of the following applies: 1) the applicant is currently using or implementing

poorly rated curricular materials and is planning to replace those materials with

high-quality materials; 2) the applicant is in chronically underperforming status; or

3) the total number of pupils enrolled in or attending the independent charter school

or the public schools in the school district other than independent charter schools is

fewer than 2,000. The bill specifies that DPI must give the highest priority to an

applicant that is currently using certain poorly rated materials specified in the bill.

The bill requires the governor to allocate $3,000,000 of the moneys received

from the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to DPI for the grants.