Bill would boost money for literacy programs

This bill would direct more money than in the past to help kids in higher grades with literacy. Those kids are falling through the cracks, and then they drop out of school. - - Donna Poisl

By Les Blumenthal, McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — There are zero-book children, 1,000-book children, the summer slide, Early Readers, Reading First, Striving Readers and programs, methods and studies with names and acronyms that won't quit. It's all part of the effort to teach the nation's children to read.

With state and local funding for education being squeezed, however, school administrators and classroom teachers are hoping a bill introduced by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., that would provide nearly $12 billion for literacy programs over five years will inject some much-needed cash into what most consider the cornerstone of learning.
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