Funding Threatened for Retired Reading Tutors
An item in this morning’s Daily News says that the four New York schools participating in the Experience Corps program will likely lose city funding to renew it this year. The program places people over age 55 in schools to tutor children with reading. Apparently private money has been hard to get as well, so the New York schools will probably lose their tutors soon. According to the Daily News article, the program has seen results in terms of students’ reading improvement, but that hasn’t seemed to stop the Department of Education from making cuts. It seems that times are just tough and choices of where to trim funding are difficult. It will be interesting to see how national initiatives for volunteerism will play out, and how many programs like SafeWalk will thrive: programs that are wholly volunteer-run and don’t depend on specified grants or public funding.
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