NEWARK - Nonprofits GreenLight Fund Greater Newark and Reading Partners hope to improve outcomes for 4,500 city students with a research-backed curriculum, as reading proficiency remains stagnant in Newark.

Reading Partners, a national nonprofit that engages community volunteers to provide one-on-one literacy tutoring, is now recruiting tutors to help improve early-literacy outcomes in Newark.

Recent test results show that reading proficiency remains stagnant in Newark, and Reading Partners has been mobilizing communities across the nation for more than 25 years to provide students with the proven, individualized reading support they need to read at grade level by fourth grade.

“GreenLight Fund Greater Newark is supporting Reading Partners’ proven program model because we are committ

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