Literacy group gets help from a likely source

These groups are working together to teach English to immigrants. - - Donna Poisl



BY KATIE SULLIVAN (STAFF WRITER)



For Joe Riccardo, literacy is the key to success in the modern-day United States.



It's a belief that has been passed down for generations through the members of the Dante Literary Society, a group that formed in 1934 to teach English to Italian immigrants.



More than 75 years later, Mr. Riccardo, president of the South Scranton society, said he wants to honor the immigrant connection by pairing with the Scranton Council of Literacy Advance, a group that's tutoring English reading and writing skills to a demographic that is about 70 percent Hispanic immigrants, and has lost its state funding.

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