What Reading Program Should My Child's School Use?

Eldo Bergman, on the Read by Grade Three mailing list,  had this to say

Parents should never ask for a program; they should ask for repeated measures (annual assessment*, for example) of vocabulary, reading accuracy, reading rate, and reading comprehension, until the gap between the child and the grade level is gone. Forget the method; monitor the child's actual progress.

You might want to check out WrightsLaw, too.