AB Christian Learning Center (ABCLC) seeks to improve the literacy of at-risk children in the City of Fort Worth through Read Fort Worth by helping to ensure that all children are ready to learn when they enter kindergarten and reading on grade level by third grade. Read Fort Worth is a collective impact effort mobilizing educators, funders, government, businesses, parents, and community organizations to see that all third-graders read at a college-ready pace by 2025 in support of Fort Worth Independent School District’s 100 by 25 Initiative. The ability to read on level by third grade is critical to lifelong learning. Third grade is the time when schooling transitions from learning to read to reading to learn. Children not reading on level in third grade are four times more likely to not graduate high school.
AB Christian Learning Center (ABCLC) seeks to improve the literacy of at-risk children in the City of Fort Worth through Read Fort Worth by helping to ensure that all children are ready to learn when they enter kindergarten and reading on…