Searching for Struggling Readers, One School at a Time
“Mayor Eric Adams announced Thursday that two new specialized dyslexia programs are opening, in addition to two others announced earlier this year — part of what officials hope will become a major effort to overhaul citywide reading instruction. Dyslexia in particular has been a centerpiece of the administration’s educational agenda, and the issue is personal for the mayor: His own dyslexia went undiagnosed until college, and he has cast the efforts as essential to fixing inequities that add to steep literacy gaps for Black and Latino children.’Far too long, children across the city suffered in silence as they struggled in school with an undetected learning disability,’ the mayor said in a statement.”