The America Reads Challenge is a grassroots national campaign, initiated by the Clinton administration in 1997.  The America Reads Challenge encourages states and communities to form literacy partnerships among schools, libraries, youth-serving groups, businesses, public and private agencies, and other community based organizations.  The America Reads Challenge asks every American to help all children learn to read, including English Language Learners and students with disabilities.

Estrella Mountain Community College serves as the employer for students placed as tutors in the public schools and handles the payroll, but the individual schools perform their own screening and background checks, and supervise the students on-site.  Students, who receive pay for their services, will do so through the federal Work-Study program. America Reads student participants will perform tutoring activities in a variety of ways, primarily one-on-one, but also in small groups and in classroom activities, assisting reading support teachers, and helping in after-school and Saturday special classes

For more information on the Estrella Mountain Community College America Reads Program, please contact the Student Life & Leadership Office at 623-935-8910.

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