Today she's in a lecture hall, bending the ears of 100 or so middle-school teachers. It is a fine spring morning as Fred Dewey guides us in my red Honda to a Dumpster in front of the Santa Monica Courthouse from which he recently spirited 65 old seats on a journey to a new life. Between the Lions' has proved to help disadvantaged kids learn to read. But Bush budget would eliminate funding. Men with canvas sacks scramble up narrow ladders in the deep shade of a hillside avocado grove, harvesting fist-sized fruit for the second time this season.
Reading Is Fundamental, but funding can be fickle.
For 35 years, the RIF program has given millions of free paperback books to poor children in 50 states. But it stands to lose all of its federal money next year. Reading Is Fundamental, but funding can be fickle. For 35 years, the RIF program has given millions of free paperback books to poor children in 50 states. But it stands to lose all of its federal money next year.