Catahoula Parish Receives Prestigious Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Grant
The Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy (SRCL) grant is a federal grant aimed at improving the reading and writing skills of students. These flow-through funds will directly support Local Education Agencies (LEAs) in their literacy efforts to benefit children from birth through twelfth grade. Louisiana is one of only six states selected to benefit from the federal grant. Louisiana’s SRCL grant will be used to fund a new program, Literacy is for Everyone (LIFE) Promise, which is modeled after the state’s highly successful K-12 Literacy Pilot Program. I am proud to announce that Catahoula Parish received one of the state’s SRCL grants. Catahoula’s grant project, subtitled the H.E.R.O. (Higher Expectations for Reading Outcomes) Project , was led by Debra Cloessner, Curriculum Supervisor. Other team members included Dr. Gwile Paul Freeman, Superintendent; Linda Edwards, Federal Programs Director; Barbara Moseley, Educational Diagnostician; Keisha Ceasar, Head Start Director; Jeffrey Odom, Block High School Principal; Janie Smith, Jonesville Jr. High Principal; and Necie Barker, Jonesville Elementary Principal. Thanks to Ms. Cloessner for her tireless effort in leading this project! We are expecting great outcomes for our students.
