EDUCATION School district delivers reading success Students...

EDUCATION

School district delivers reading success

Students are getting some extra help through the district’s new

Read 180 program.

Books, books on tape and special computer software use topics of

interest to get students who are reading below grade level up to par.

This is the first year for the program.

* A school readiness bill passed out of an appropriations

committee Wednesday would require the state Department of Education

to award grants to districts for neighborhood school readiness

centers.

The centers would make preschool available to all families. The

bill will be tacked on with other education bills to the California

Master Plan for Education.

* Orange County Transportation Authority and UC Irvine on Thursday

announced the U-Pass program that lets students take the bus to

school, or anywhere else, for free. All they need is their current

student identification card. Orange County Transportation Authority

launched the same program at Cal State Fullerton in September and so

far has 1,000 students participating, according to Chairman Gregory

Winterbottom.

-- Marisa O’Neil