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Superintendents Upset by Funding Cuts to a Reading Program

Some Alabama superintendents are upset by funding cuts to a reading program that will disproportionately affect schools with higher reading scores. Lawmakers in April approved the 2017 education budget, which included about $7.5 million being cut from the Alabama Reading Imitative. The program pays for reading coaches in classrooms. Superintendents didn’t find out until May 6 that the program cuts…