HUNTINGTON BEACH : Literacy Center Gets $34,461 U.S. Grant
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the city a grant to pay for most of the costs of operating the literacy center at the Huntington Central Library.
The $34,461 grant will pay part of the salaries of two employees who run the literacy program, and will go toward office supplies, materials, printing expenses and other costs.
Coupled with state financial aid, the federal grant will enable the library to continue funding the program at its current level of about $40,000, according to a report prepared by Ron Hayden, the city’s library director.
The 5-year-old program, operated under the auspices of the Huntington Valley Literacy Volunteers of America, helps about 200 students a year learn to read.
The program is run by one full-time coordinator, a part-time assistant and scores of volunteers, who teach mainly by using the library’s computer-learning center, which is among the most extensive such facilities in the county.
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