Listen A Tennessee initiative to boost literacy rates is in jeopardy. The Read To Be Ready program launched in 2016 and had an ambitious goal of increasing literacy among third graders. But its popular summer camp program has officially run out of funds.
Lack Of Funding Puts Tennessee Literacy Summer Program At Risk
Listen A state program aimed at increasing literacy rates among Tennessee students may not be funded next year. The goal of Read to be Ready is to increase the share of third-graders who are proficient at reading to 75% by 2025. Less than half of students did when the program started in 2016.