Tuesday, July 25, 2000
City schools allot money for reading
By Andrea Tortora
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Efforts to get every third-grader in Cincinnati schools reading at grade level will receive more financial support next school year.
The 2000-01 budget passed Monday by the Board of Education includes $420,000 for early literacy efforts that will continue the push started with this year's mandatory summer school for reading.
The additional money will be used to train teachers in ways to assess student reading and new ways to teach students how to “read to learn.”
Terry Joyner, curriculum director, said the budget will fund two literacy coaches who will work with teachers year-round to improve reading skills.
Summer school reading teachers attended 60 hours of training to learn new literacy teaching models, such as the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Success.
“These funds will help us extend those programs to more teachers and more students,” Ms. Joyner said. “And throughout the year we hope those teachers will share what they learned in the summer program.”
Superintendent Steven Adamowski said the early literacy programs are one of the district's most important initiatives.
The district is trying to get students reading at grade level before the state's Fourth Grade Reading Guarantee takes effect in the 2001-02 school year.
Students in the second and third grade who did not pass the state's reading proficiency test were required to attend summer school. About 42 percent of second-graders and 20 percent of third-graders failed the test.
Of those 2,466 students, 83 percent attended the summer school.
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