January 15, 2003

Success for All

Dr. Robert E. Slavin, co-founder of the Success for All reading program, visited several schools in the Galveston Independent School District on Wednesday, and met with community leaders in a luncheon meeting in the school board meeting room.

"Success for All has made a huge impact on our schools," said School Board President John Ford, crediting the program with improvements of reading skills, resulting in higher test scores.

"I've been hearing for years about the wonderful work Galveston is doing," Slavin said, explaining that SFA was launched in 1987, "as a program to try to help all schools, but particularly schools serving many children in poverty, to achieve at very high levels."

Galveston Chamber of Commerce Chair Garry Kaufman personally thanked Slavin for the program, which he says has been helpful to his children in the school system.  Other participants in the meeting expressed similar thoughts.

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