National Reading Improvement Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] National Reading Improvement Act - Declares, under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the purposes of this Act, including: to provide for the strengthening of reading instruction programs in the school systems in the Nation. Directs the Commissioner of Education to contract with the States to encourage and assist elementary and secondary school systems in meeting specified objectives, including: (1) planning, developing, and operating improved reading programs; and (2) identifying exemplary reading programs and encouraging and assisting the replication of such programs in other schools. Authorizes, for such State-assistance contracts, to be appropriated $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $250,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Provides for the allotment of such funds. Sets forth the conditions of such contracts, including that the State educational agency shall: (1) prepare a ten-year plan specifying the goals and the means to be employed by State and local educational agencies; (2) identify and give highest priority to those local educational agencies with the highest concentration of school-age population with reading deficiencies; and (…