4 Urban Districts Awarded $4.6 Million for Libraries

By Meg Sommefield

The DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund has awarded public education funds in four urban school districts $4.6 million to revive their libraries.

The new grants are part of an expansion of the fund's "Library Power" program launched in the New York City Public Schools in 1988.

The grants will be administered by public-education funds in Baton Rouge, La.; Providence, R.I.; Rochester, N.Y; and Tucson, Ariz. Each fund will receive slightly more than a million dollars to provide professional staff development and to finance physical renovations for their...

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