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For Immediate Release

Contact:

Ashley Huff, Director of Community Engagement & Operations

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214-821-4500 | ashley.huff@readingpartners.org

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

DALLAS, Tex. – September 12, 2022  — Despite COVID-19 variants creating ongoing disruptions in schools, ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ continued to provide critical literacy support to students, schools, and communities. In fact, the nonprofit provided literacy tutoring to 17% more local students in the 2021-22 school year than the year before.

2021-22 results show that ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ continued to positively impact students

Each year, ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ 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  and include the following highlights in North Texas.

• 674 students received 12+ sessions of one-on-one tutoring

• 15,290 total tutoring sessions were delivered to those same students

• 667 community tutors supported students

• 96% of volunteers were satisfied with their experience

• Distributed over 14,300 books and 700 book bags with activities to keep students reading over the summer

• Learn more about ³ÉÈ˿첥’ impact in North Texas .

• Learn about ³ÉÈ˿첥’ national impact .

In addition to reaching a lot of students, ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ North Texas achieved impressive student performance. In 2021-22, 79% of all ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ students finished the year meeting or exceeding their primary end-of-year literacy growth goals, while 84% of K-2 ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ students were developing mastery of key foundational reading skills needed to read and grade level.

Heading into the new school year, ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ North Texas anticipates needing more than 1,000 community volunteers to support students’ literacy development. Follow  if you’re interested in investing one hour a week to help empower a student through reading.

³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ also gets help from AmeriCorps members to train and provide ongoing support to literacy volunteers. Please  if you’re interested in becoming an AmeriCorps member at ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥.

A volunteer tutor and a student in a reading center engaging in ³ÉÈ˿첥’ traditional tutoring program (Photo Credit: ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥)

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About ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥

For over 20 years, ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ has helped empower students to succeed in school and beyond by engaging community volunteers to provide , 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 to learn more about our and our online program innovation, or connect with us on,,, and. ³ÉÈË¿ì²¥ is a proud service partner and has been endorsed by The New York Times.