Lesaux's 2010 report, Turning the Page: Refocusing Massachusetts for Reading Success, formed the basis for a third -
grade reading proficiency bill passed in Massachusetts in 2012, and Lead for Literacy, her series of memos aimed at policymakers and education leaders, has been used across the nation for literacy planning.
(Mich.) In order to improve literacy rates statewide, students will be held back if they are not at or near
reading proficiency by the end of third
grade under a
bill passed by the Michigan legislature last week.