Reading-Achievement Program Is Off to a Quiet Start
Just as its passage slipped quietly through the federal appropriations process last fall, implementation of the Reading Excellence Act, a plan to raise American schoolchildren's lackluster reading achievement, is proceeding without fanfare.
The program's staff at the Department of Education, appointed a few weeks ago, is working behind the scenes to ready applications, draft procedures, and inform states about how to tap $520 million in block grants over the next two years.
Most of the money is intended to have a direct effect on the classrooms that need it most, with 85 percent targeted to professional development for teachers and to assistance programs for disadvantaged children who may be at risk of failure in reading. States will be required to distribute the grants to their poorest districts and to those that state education officials identify as most in need of improving student achievement. What's left will go to...
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