“Third grade is a crucial year, where they learn a great deal of independence and independent reading as they go into state testing. PEP partnering with us to put books in their hands helps us ...

The program is for students in VPK through 5th grade. Forty-seven percent of third to tenth graders in Florida read below grade level.

not help them.” Early literacy challenges persist The Third Grade Reading Guarantee was one of the biggest state efforts in the past decade to try to fix low early literacy rates, but research ...