Manitoba Human Rights Report Recommends Changes To Literacy Screening, Instruction

A caller study from nan Manitoba Human Rights Commission is recommending changes aimed astatine improving literacy outcomes successful nan province

“Supporting nan Right to Read successful Manitoba” looks astatine literacy done a human rights lens, assessing literacy screening, education, and supports.

“We really position that arsenic an equity issue, because each kid has nan correct to an education, and each kid should beryllium taught to publication arsenic a portion of that correct to education,” said Dyslexia Canada Executive Director Alicia Smith.

According to provincial data from autumn 2024, only 44.9 per cent of Grade 3 students successful Manitoba meet English literacy expectations. Among Indigenous 3rd graders, that number is 27.7 per cent.

“If we don’t adopt these recommendations, we will proceed to support nan position quo,” Smith said.

“The position quo successful Manitoba correct now is that you person nan lowest literacy results successful Canada.”

Watch nan video supra to study much astir nan study and its recommendations.