Every Child Reads Champions Council

Current understanding

Executive Order 2026-12 dissolves Michigan’s PreK-12 Literacy Commission and replaces it with the Every Child Reads Champions Council, an advisory body housed within MiLEAP (Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential). The council is tasked with advising on science-of-reading-aligned instruction through 3rd grade and beyond, signaling continued executive-branch emphasis on structured literacy as the state’s preferred instructional framework.

Evidence log

• 2026-05-28 — Executive Order 2026-12: Every Child Reads Champions Council: cross-connection with science-of-reading-curriculum: The new advisory council is explicitly charged with promoting science-of-reading-aligned instruction, providing an executive-branch governance layer that parallels the statutory science-of-reading curriculum requirements in Sec. 1280f. (novelty: 2)

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