The state schools superintendent announced last week his agency will fund a program that provides free books to young children locally and statewide for one year, after the Legislature cut the funding because of Washington’s budget deficit.
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Source: The Columbian
Imagination Library gets one year reprieve as Washington’s public schools agency to fund literacy program
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