The Minnesota Reading to Ensure Academic Development Act was passed in July 2023 and requires evidence-based literacy instruction to ensure all students read at grade level. In addition to mandatory supplemental instructor training, the state act also implemented annual screening for kindergarten through third grade students as well as interventions for fourth through 12th graders who may be struggling. Read Act funding totals for the state have been listed as high as 110million,withOwatonnaPublicSchoolsreceiving110 million, with Owatonna Public Schools receiving 180,119 before this school year per its 2025-26 preliminary budget. The post New language arts, math curriculums take shape at Owatonna schools appeared first on Illustrative Mathematics K–12 Math .