Lack
of Funding Hurts Literacy Effort
LAT:
August 4, 1993 By ED BOND
Joe,
a 35-year-old unemployed electrician, could be learning to read twice as fast
as he is now, his tutor said.
“Unfortunately,
we have only one book,” said Pat King, who for three weeks has been tutoring
Joe through a literacy program at the Burbank Public Library. But the library
is short of money, supplies and books for the Students of Adult Reading
Services program started with a state grant.
The
Friends of the Burbank Public Library is running a $5,000 fund-raising campaign
so the program can be expanded from the 25 adults now learning to read to 125
by next July.
.
. .
Donations
of supplies such as paper, pens and especially new dictionaries are needed,
said Patricia K. Smart, Burbank Public Library’s literacy project coordinator. READ
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