California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined AmeriCorps volunteers at a San Francisco school to highlight childhood literacy efforts and to urge Californians to consider signing up as tutors. Bonta framed the visit around the impact of local tutoring programs and recent challenges to federal support for AmeriCorps.

Bonta said Reading Partners’ results from the previous year demonstrate the program’s importance. Organizers cited that 536 students received individualized literacy support, 663 community volunteers tutored students twice a week, and 13,858 books were distributed. Those figures were presented as evidence that volunteer tutoring reaches substantial numbers of children in need of reading help.

Speakers at the event also described a recent federal funding dispute: they said the Trump administration had attempted to dismantle AmeriCorps, and that California and other states sued the federal government to restore funding. According to those present, the litigation resulted in the restoration of AmeriCorps funding, a development organizers used to underline the program’s continued operation and need for community support.

Organizers closed by encouraging residents to sign up for volunteer openings with AmeriCorps and Reading Partners, presenting recruitment as a practical next step to sustain classroom tutoring. There was no formal vote or policy action recorded at the event; it was presented as an awareness and recruitment visit.