Look, we have over a thousand students reading below grade level, ... This is a viable program and helps with comprehension. We will do it again next summer.

He's secretly after the reading coming to my house to meet the students.

We want all students to be reading at grade level and meet the AYP (adequate yearly progress) requirements of the No Child Left Behind,

We have over 11,000 students in our corporation and many of them have needs. We know reading and literacy is so important in whether a child is successful or not. We can do these things with the help of the community. This is a community effort.

We wanted to incorporate things that the students were learning about in their classrooms and tie in their reading material. We also wanted to bring in diversity and use themes that were universal around the world in the murals that Claudette was designing.

'Read across America' is a nationwide program to promote reading to students of all ages.