Adult Literacy Program in Redlands
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Redlands Daily Facts: 9.05.2014
The Redlands City Council has declared this Monday as Adult Literacy Day in the city of Redlands.
The city’s action coincides with Gov. Jerry Brown’s declaring September Adult Literacy Awareness Month.
The California Library Literacy Services (CLLS) estimates that
more than 4 million California adults have low literacy skills, making if
difficult for these adults to read a news article, a story to their children,
job applications or the instructions on a medicine bottle.
The 2010 Census found that 11 percent of the adult population
served by the A.K. Smiley Public Library in Redlands lacks a high school
diploma.
The Redlands Adult Literacy Program,
sponsored by the Friends of the A.K. Smiley Public Library, provides free
professional tutoring to people 18 and older who want to improve their reading
and writing. The program now has 70 tutor-learner teams who work together to
help meet the learners’ reading and writing goals. Recently, several learners
graduated from the program to go to community college or work at a new job. READ MORE !
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