Richland County Public Library

To encourage early learning, the Richland County Public Library will partner in a planning project with the University of South Carolina’s Office of Program Evaluation and the Midlands Reading Consortium of the United Way of the Midlands. The planning team will pilot and evaluate Project Summer Stride, which will focus on reducing summer reading loss through effective tutoring, reading programs, and other interventions. Thirty students will participate in the pilot program during the summer of 2013, and the project team will examine the feasibility and scalability of libraries providing such services to larger numbers of students.