Senate Panel Votes to Kill Funds for 'Reading First'

Source: Education Week; June 24, 2008

A Senate Appropriations subcommittee voted to eliminate all funding for the Reading First program, as part of a fiscal 2009 spending bill that would provide modest increases for other education programs.

In explaining his panel's decision to zero out the program, the panel cited the results of a preliminary federal evaluation of Reading First, released May 1, which found that the program has had no impact...