§6674 Technical assistance and national evaluation

Summary

The U.S. Secretary of Education must use reserved program funds to create a national center focused on students who are at risk of not becoming fully literate because of a disability. The Secretary can also give technical help to states and local school districts directly or by grants and contracts. The Secretary can have outside groups or the Institute of Education Sciences evaluate how well those activities work. The center must find or make free or low-cost, research-backed screening tools and teaching methods for students with issues like dyslexia or developmental delays that affect reading, writing, language, understanding, or executive functioning (planning and organizing). It must offer accommodations and assistive technology, give families helpful information, create teacher and staff training, promote early screening starting no later than kindergarten, and share its tools and materials widely with state and local education agencies and partner centers.