Excellent Public Schools Act of 2021 (SB 387 / S.L. 2021-8)
How schools fund reading intervention in North Carolina
How schools fund reading intervention in North Carolina
How schools fund reading intervention in North Carolina
The state-level programs below are the streams North Carolina districts most often use for evidence-based reading intervention purchases, alongside the federal streams available everywhere.
Literacy Intervention Allotment (PRC 085)
State allotment to districts and charters for K-3 literacy support, usable for core and supplemental instructional resources implemented under the district’s Literacy Intervention Plan, science-of-reading professional development, and supplemental evidence-based reading tutoring for twice-retained third graders. Funds cannot be transferred out of the program code and must be spent within the fiscal year.
Read to Achieve Summer Reading Camps
State-funded summer reading camps for struggling readers in early grades, required under the Excellent Public Schools Act; districts can apply camp funding to the evidence-based reading intervention materials and staffing used in the camps.
Approved-list note: North Carolina does not publish a mandatory approved list of intervention programs; instead, SB 387 requires that literacy interventions be grounded in the science of reading and documented in each district’s DPI-reviewed Literacy Intervention Plan.
