Civil Politics (9/25/26): Reading is Essential! A Discussion with Mike Moriarty

Do now kids, too.

OK, great.

So so obviously we would prefer to prevent censorship and book banning.

Yeah, yeah.

No, no,

no.

We we may not have spoken to that with our very focused bill, but we certainly I don't think there's anybody in the mass reads coalition that would have opposed that.

Yeah, I certainly don't.

Yeah,

yeah.

So.

All right.

So.

What does Chapter 113 do then? What does it actually change in the state? I know that it's got a bunch of funding measures, PRISM grants, as I recall they were called.

Yes.

But does it do more than just say, we're going to put money into making sure there's more reading coaches and things like that in schools and things? What does it do?

Here's a way to think about it.

Literacy launch, which is the funding stream that you're talking about, and some additional allocations for things like high dosage tutoring have come in some large numbers in the governor's budgets in recent years.

And it's sort of laid really good groundwork.

Districts who were interested and willing applied for these grants like Gleeman Prison.

By doing so, they had to agree to adopt certain preferred curricula.

Yeah.

And they had to provide a certain level of training.

And there are dozens and dozens of districts who are ahead of the curve because they participated in that.

Those were the carrots, if you will.