"Reading Coaches Cut From Budgets" (Lakeland, FL Ledger, 02/08/09)

At the height of the state's push to improve reading, more than 2,500 reading coaches worked in Florida schools.

But just when students started reading better - 60 percent read at grade level in 2008 compared with 50 percent in 2004 - budget cuts may slash the number of reading coaches by more than half, leaving many schools without one.