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Sacramento Literacy Foundation urges county action after data shows most third graders behind
Summary
The Sacramento Literacy Foundation presented county supervisors with local third-grade reading data and requested county support for evidence-based “science of reading” interventions, classroom libraries and expanded book distribution to low-income children.
The Sacramento Literacy Foundation told the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors on April 8 that 62% of third graders in the county are not reading at grade level and asked the board to include literacy in future initiatives and municipal budgeting.
Messiah Malaris, with the Sacramento Literacy Foundation, told supervisors, "62 percent of third graders in Sacramento are not reading at grade level." He and the foundation’s staff outlined programs that give five culturally relevant books to under-resourced children and advocated adoption of the "science of reading," a set of…
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