Danville using literacy grant to hire nine teaching assistants

DANVILLE – Some Danville students will get more help learning how to read this year.

School officials are using a $300,000 Reading Improvement Program grant from the Illinois State Board of Education to hire nine teaching assistants to provide extra instruction and intervention activities at all elementary schools.

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