US$1 million Verizon grant goes to La Raza

An innovative program designed to build early literacy skills among Latino children will continue to expand and assist more families, thanks to a US$1 million grant from the Verizon Foundation. The award was announced Monday (July 23) during a luncheon at the National Council of La Raza’s annual conference in Miami, Florida. The program, Lee y seras, is a national early literacy initiative designed to foster literacy development in children from birth to 8 years old. The program and its accompanying Web site www.leeyseras.net, provide research-based, culturally sensitive resources to help parents in their role as their child's first teacher. Read more here.