Report of Regents P-12 Education/Higher Education Joint Meeting Committee to The Board of Regents

Your Joint Higher Education/P-12 Committee held its scheduled meeting on February 14, 2022. Regents Cashin and Ouderkirk were absent and excused.

Action Items

MOTION FOR ACTION BY FULL BOARD

Your Joint Higher Education/P-12 Committee recommends, and we move, that the Board of Regents act affirmatively upon each recommendation in the written report of the Committee’s deliberations at its meeting on February 14, 2022, copies of which have been distributed to each member of the Board of Regents.

Matters Not Requiring Board Action:

Proposed Amendment to Section 30-1.8 of the Rules of the Board of Regents and Sections 52.21, 80-1.2, 80-3.2, and 80-3.7 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to Establishing the Literacy (All Grades) Certificate - Department staff proposed regulatory amendments to establish the Literacy (All Grades) certificate, to create registration requirements for programs leading to the proposed certificate, to allow candidates to apply for the proposed certificate through the individual evaluation pathway, to outline when the current Literacy (Birth-Grade 6) and Literacy (Grades 5-12) certificates would no longer be issued and programs leading to the current certificates would no longer be registered, and to rename the “remedial reading” to the “literacy and reading” tenure area.