This is what happens when you let politicians loose on education. These people know absolutely nothing about educationally sound practices and they certainly don't listen to people who do. This bill is badly flawed. First of all, 1st grade is a watershed year in terms of reading development. Every year, I see children enter in Sept. as non-readers and leave in June as readers. Many of them inch along in their skills until about Christmas and then the switch flips and they take off. This bill seeks to label those children as reading disabled. Secondly, apparently these politicians are not aware that once you declare a child as disabled in any way or act as if you suspect a disability, they are then entitled to a whole host of Federal legal protections that children without disabilities are not entitled to. That alone would have a huge financial and educational impact on the schools. Third, this bill runs contrary to the move by the Federal government toward the Response to Instruction model to determine reading disabilities. Finally, if this bill is such a good idea according to the sponsors, why does it only include the public schools? Why not the private schools also? What is the real agenda here?