TOLEDO, Ohio — At the downtown Toledo Library, the Read for Literacy and Clair’s Day programs offer free assistance to any person, young or older, looking to learn how to read.
Read for Literacy Executive Director Diana Bush said there are about 40,000 adults in Northwest Ohio who read below a fourth grade reading level and are raising children who also read at the same level. She said combing this with the literacy data from Ohio’s 2023-2024 School Report Card found kindergarten through fifth grade students are struggling.
This has been especially true since after the pandemic…