First lady Laura Bush reads If You Give a Pig a Pancake to a kindergarten class at Cesar Chavez Elementary School in Hyattsville, Md., last week after highlighting her "Ready to Read, Ready to Learn" initiatives. Her visit came two days before President Bush proposed a 6 percent budget increase for the Department of Education. (See story, Page 1.)
Vol. 20, Issue 25, Page 27
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