Keep ‘Reading First’ Funds, Advisory Group to Urge Congress
A federal advisory panel said yesterday it will urge Congress to “refrain from eliminating funding for Reading First,” as House and Senate appropriations subcommittees have recommended, because the panel’s members believe a recent evaluation has caused confusion and misperceptions about the program’s effectiveness.
“We have concerns about the limitations of the study that preclude drawing firm conclusions,” Susan Brady, a member of the Reading First Advisory Committee, said at the meeting. The statement will be forwarded to members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which is expected this week to make its recommendation for funding the program in the fiscal 2009 federal budget.
It outlines three concerns: “limitations surrounding the design, methodology, and analysis of the Reading First Impact Study; unwarranted inferences drawn from the interim report [of that study]; and lack of consideration of other sources of information about the...
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