Bill Text: IL HR0256 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Declares the week of May 7 through May 13, 2023 as Read with Your Child Week in the State of Illinois. Encourages all Illinois schools to promote Read with Your Child Week with appropriate activities.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2024-04-26 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Tony M. McCombie [HR0256 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HR0256-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The ability to read is fundamental to an | ||||||
| 3 | individual's success and their ability to take part in our | ||||||
| 4 | democracy as a responsible citizen; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, According to 2022 data from the National | ||||||
| 6 | Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), one third of Illinois | ||||||
| 7 | children are reading below their basic grade level; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, A study by the Annie E. Casey Foundation found | ||||||
| 9 | that third graders that do not read proficiently are four | ||||||
| 10 | times more likely to drop out of high school, and low-income | ||||||
| 11 | students that do not read proficiently are six times more | ||||||
| 12 | likely to drop out of high school; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, Students that cannot read proficiently experience | ||||||
| 14 | difficulty in every school subject and find it hard to succeed | ||||||
| 15 | academically; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, Students who cannot read proficiently are not | ||||||
| 17 | well prepared for life after school; and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, In the proposed FY24 budget, $1.5 million has | ||||||
| 19 | been dedicated so that every child from birth to five years old | ||||||
| 20 | should soon be receiving one free book a month through Dolly | ||||||
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| 1 | Parton's Imagination Library; and
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Parents are indispensable in the education of | ||||||
| 3 | their children, and the habits that parents model and the | ||||||
| 4 | passions they instill are vital to a child's development; | ||||||
| 5 | therefore, be it
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| 6 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 7 | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 8 | we declare the week of May 7 through May 13, 2023 as Read with | ||||||
| 9 | Your Child Week in the State of Illinois; and be it further
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| 10 | RESOLVED, That we encourage all Illinois schools to | ||||||
| 11 | promote Read with Your Child Week with appropriate activities; | ||||||
| 12 | and be it further
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| 13 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 14 | presented to Dr. Tony Sanders, the State Superintendent of | ||||||
| 15 | Education.
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