Children in 561 local and intermediate school districts across Michigan will benefit from $87 million in grant money awarded to improve student literacy.

The districts are receiving funding for high-quality classroom literacy materials, literacy interventions, or literacy professional development selected from a menu of resources approved by the Michigan Department of Education.

In Oakland County, 23 public school districts received over $9.6 million in grants. Here are the top five awards and what the funds were used for:

Troy – UFLI Foundations, 1st Edition $1,120,928

Walled Lake Consolidated Schools – Imagine Learning EL Education Edition $1,079,256

Farmington – Wit and Wisdom (K-5 Core ELA program) and Geodes (K-3 Decodable Texts) $837,066

South Lyon – Collaborative Literacy, 3rd

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