成人快播

For Immediate Release

Contact:

Hannah Belich

Community Engagement Manager, 成人快播 Colorado

720-409-9909 |聽volunteerco@readingpartners.org

Local nonprofit鈥檚 2021-22 impact results show critical support for students, schools, and communities

DENVER, Colo. – September 13, 2022聽聽鈥� Despite COVID-19 variants creating ongoing disruptions in schools, 成人快播 continued to provide critical literacy support to students, schools, and communities. In fact, the nonprofit provided literacy tutoring to 114% more local students in the 2021-22 school year than the year before.

A study by the Annie E. Casey foundation found that kids 鈥渨ho [aren鈥檛] reading proficiently by third grade are four times more likely to leave school without a diploma than proficient readers,鈥� and 鈥渇or鈥� those [who] couldn鈥檛 master even the basic skills by third grade, the rate is nearly six times greater.鈥� Given the impact of the pandemic and its disproportionate effect on historically underserved communities, it is more crucial than ever that we step-up our efforts to support our youngest learners鈥� growth as readers, which can transform and empower their success.

2021-22 results show that 成人快播 continued to positively impact students

Each year, 成人快播 publishes reports highlighting student performance for the national organization and for each of its 12 respective regions across the country. The Impact & Innovation reports for the 2021-22 school year have recently been posted on聽聽and include the following highlights in Colorado.

• 551聽students received 12+ sessions of one-on-one tutoring

• 13,989聽total tutoring sessions were delivered to those same students

• 516聽community tutors supported students

• 100%聽of volunteers were satisfied with their experience

• ALL students received a summer reading backpack to combat summer slide

• Learn more about 成人快播鈥� impact in Colorado聽.

• Learn about 成人快播鈥� national impact聽.

In addition to reaching a lot of students, 成人快播 Colorado achieved impressive student performance. In 2021-22,聽81%聽of all 成人快播 students finished the year meeting or exceeding their primary end-of-year literacy growth goals, while聽84%聽of K-2 成人快播 students were developing mastery of key foundational reading skills needed to read and grade level.

鈥湷扇丝觳� is excited to be able to provide students with the incredible opportunity to work one-on-one with a volunteer and build relationships while growing as readers, which is so rare in public education, and allows each student to have a customized reading experience,鈥� said Brett Butler, deputy program director.

Heading into the new school year, 成人快播 Colorado anticipates needing more than 800 community volunteers to support students’ literacy development. Follow聽聽if you鈥檙e interested in investing one hour a week to help empower a student through reading.

成人快播 also gets help from AmeriCorps members to train and provide ongoing support to literacy volunteers. Please聽聽if you鈥檙e interested in becoming an AmeriCorps member at 成人快播.

A volunteer tutor and a student in a reading center engaging in 成人快播鈥� traditional tutoring program (Photo Credit: 成人快播)

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About 成人快播

For over 20 years, 成人快播 has helped empower students to succeed in school and beyond by engaging community volunteers to provide聽, one-on-one literacy tutoring. Since its founding, the national nonprofit organization has mobilized over 75,000 community volunteers to provide more than 2.5 million individualized literacy tutoring sessions to more than 70,000 elementary school students in nearly 470 under-resourced schools across ten states and the District of Columbia. Visit聽to learn more about our聽and our聽online program innovation, or connect with us on,,, and. 成人快播 is a proud聽service partner and has been endorsed by聽The New York Times.