On-site optometry just one of ways New Visions School helps kids read.(NEWS)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: January 17, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Leonard Inskip; Staff Writer

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The news is alive these days with pending cutbacks in state and local services; less is heard about good programs that deserve, if anything, expansion.

Here's one to consider: reading help for kids not doing well in lower grades, including kindergarten.

Minneapolis has a model program that has gotten some national attention. It's a charter school in a former sheet-metal factory in northeast Minneapolis. State and federal funds have helped schools elsewhere in Minnesota and in other states learn from the program. ...

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