"As a Reading First Coach, I am involved in every aspect of implementing the Reading First grant in my school. Part of the problem, as I see it, is the lack of adequate funding for the mandate. For example, the teachers in my building are required to have a diagnostic team with which to focus extra help.

"We have no such extra staff to create these teams, and the funding is not in place in schools to hire extra help. The grant itself is in danger of not meeting the mandates because the local district does not have the manpower or resources to implement it."

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