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Every 1 Reads

Every1Reads

Advancing Universal Student Literacy

Champion Institutions: Greater Louisville, Inc., Jefferson County Public Schools, Metro Louisville United Way, and Louisville Metro Government

Every 1 Reads is a campaign launched by Greater Louisville, Inc., the area’s Chamber of Commerce, and the Jefferson County Public Schools to ensure that all of its 90,000 students achieve literacy proficiency – a goal viewed as essential to the City’s future economic progress.

The leaders of Every 1 Reads called on DCA to develop a network of Every 1 Reads Community Partners to surround struggling students with the high-quality mentoring, tutoring and enrichment they need to succeed.  DCA helped enlist family and youth service organizations throughout Louisville and created a plan to train them, direct parents and children to them, keep them focused on results, and reward their success in raising student performance.

In December of 2008, hundreds of community leaders and residents met to celebrate the success of this effort.  Together, they had:

  • enlisted 53 Every 1 Reads Community Partner organizations (now serving 11,500 students annually);
  • exceeded their goal of mobilizing 10,000 literacy volunteers;
  • met their goal of raising $8 million from local businesses to support literacy programming and instruction;
  • reduced the number of struggling readers from 18 percent of all students to 9.4 percent;
  • achieved an almost 20 percent increase in the number of high-performing readers;
  • reduced the number of struggling writers from 25 percent to nine percent.

The community has now committed to sustain and build upon this progress.

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