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Read With Me volunteers credited with thousands of reading hours in Palm Springs Unified
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District staff and Read With Me leaders described a volunteer literacy partnership that provided thousands of volunteer hours, tens of thousands of books, and plans to expand to additional Palm Springs elementary schools.
Palm Springs Unified School District staff and leaders from the nonprofit Read With Me presented the district board with an overview of a long-running volunteer literacy partnership that supplies tutors, mentors and books to elementary classrooms across the Coachella Valley.
Jessica Whiteman, the district’s director of elementary curriculum and instruction, introduced Read With Me as a nonprofit founded by Roberta Klein that “assists children from low‑income, limited‑English environments to develop to their fullest potential by learning to read, comprehend and speak English.” Whiteman said the organization partners with all three valley school districts (Palm Springs Unified,…
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