Last week, officers from the Atlanta Public Schools Police Department piled a different kind of weapon into their patrol cars: books.
Atlanta Public Schools teamed up with Real Dads Read, an Atlanta-based arm of the non-profit Fathers Incorporated, to launch a fleet of “mobile units” to provide reading and study materials to young students during the summer months.
According to a report by Northwest Evaluation Association, COVID-19 school closures have resulted in students losing 30% of reading gains and 50% of math skills.
“We believe that this partnership will assist us in continuing to keep children reading and engaged with academic material throughout the summer,” Kenneth Braswell, CEO of Fathers Incorporated, said in a statement.
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