Literacy Launch: Reading Success from Age 3 through Grade 3 (DESE, launched FY2025)
How schools fund reading intervention in Massachusetts
How schools fund reading intervention in Massachusetts
How schools fund reading intervention in Massachusetts
The state-level programs below are the streams Massachusetts districts most often use for evidence-based reading intervention purchases, alongside the federal streams available everywhere.
Partnership for Reading Success — Massachusetts (PRISM / PRISM II) grants (e.g., DESE Fund Code 593B)
PRISM grants pay for districts, charters, and collaboratives to evaluate, select, purchase, and implement high-quality instructional materials in PreK-3 ELA/literacy, including associated professional development; a district adding an evidence-based reading intervention as part of its literacy adoption could budget it within a PRISM application.
Literacy Launch competitive grant rounds (e.g., Early Literacy Consortium Grant, Fund Code 0726)
DESE runs recurring Literacy Launch competitive grants (FY2025-FY2027 fund codes) supporting evidence-based early literacy instruction, materials, and educator training; districts should watch DESE’s grants page for open fund codes each fiscal year.
Approved-list note: DESE’s CURATE project publishes teacher-panel ratings of ELA/literacy materials, and DESE grant programs generally expect selections rated favorably by CURATE or EdReports, so documented third-party evidence review matters.
