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The Duke Energy Foundation donates to support summer reading programs in eighteen Indiana school districts.
By Tim Pierce (originally posted to Flickr as lost) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsPLAINFIELD, Ind. (AP) — The Duke Energy Foundation is distributing about $400,000 in grants to Indiana school districts to pay for summer youth reading programs.
Eighteen districts in central and southern Indiana are receiving grants ranging from about $6,000 to more than $25,000 for wide-ranging summer reading initiatives that largely target students before third grade.
One district, the Monroe County Community Schools, is getting nearly $24,000 to fund an immersive summer remedial reading program for struggling readers completing first and second grades and a summer reading camp for at-risk children.
Another, the Kokomo School Corp., is getting nearly $25,000 toward a four-week literacy camp for first- and second-grade students who are reading below grade level. Students will receive a summer reading bag that includes 10 books and a work sheet for each book.