22.1-239 - Basal textbooks.
§ 22.1-239. Basal textbooks.
In approving basal textbooks for reading in kindergarten and first grade, theBoard shall report to local school boards those textbooks with a minimumdecodability standard based on words that students can correctly read byproperly attaching speech sounds to each letter to formulate the word at 70percent or above for such textbooks.
(Code 1950, § 22-297; 1980, c. 559; 1981, c. 190; 2008, cc. 430, 615, 663.)