Imagination Library Partners With Utah Nonprofit to Tackle 69% Child Reading Gap
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Updated · KUTV 2News · Aug 25
Imagination Library Partners With Utah Nonprofit to Tackle 69% Child Reading Gap
3 articles · Updated · KUTV 2News · Aug 25
Summary
Operation Literacy signed a formal agreement to become Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library partner in Utah, launching the Raising Utah Readers initiative to distribute free books and literacy resources.
About 69% of Utah children read below grade level by third grade, a gap the partnership is using to press lawmakers for state funding.
Pending legislation, the Utah nonprofit has started a large-scale pilot program to show demand for the book-giveaway effort and measure its impact.
The deal extends Parton’s literacy work in Utah after her death at 80, with local organizers saying the program aims to build long-term reading support statewide.