In California push to help students with dyslexia, LA schools take a first step
By Jane Meredith Adams, EdSource
June 25, 2017
The Los Angeles Unified school board jumped ahead of a new state law last week and instructed the school district to immediately create a plan to train teachers on the leading learning disability in California: a reading impairment known as dyslexia.
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