The National Civic League named Tahoe Truckee region an All-America City based on its ambitious plan to ensure more children are reading at grade level by the end of third grade.
The Tahoe Truckee Reads Campaign's comprehensive strategy to boost third-grade reading is more on reading proficiency, school readiness and attendance, summer reading, public awareness and increased coordination and system change. The region aims to increase the percentage of grade-level readers from 53 percent to 80 percent.
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