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Regis University must make changes to how it trains future teachers on reading instruction before state officials consider a full reauthorization of its elementary education and special education programs.
The decision, approved in a 5-1 vote by the State Board of Education on Thursday, granted the Denver-based university conditional approval for the two majors, which together enroll around 200 students. The state will conduct follow-up reviews of those two programs next fall to determine if they met the required conditions. The remaining 13 majors within the university’s teacher prep program won full approval.
In the state’s reauthorization report on Regis, reviewers praised the university’s teacher prep program for having recently made improvements to some reading courses, but said some classes still have shortcomings. These include the use of textbooks that don’t align with the science of reading and too little coverage of current reading mandat