To help combat alarmingly low literacy rates and help underserved youth, the New York Community Trust awarded a $150,000 grant to the Literacy Academy Collective, a nonprofit dedicated to improving reading instruction for struggling students. 

The grant will help the collective open its second public school, the Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy, in September 2025. 

Education advocates — including Shawn Morehead, executive vice president of grants and chief program officer with the trust — say the introduction of Literacy Academy Collective schools can help be a vital bridge to universal literacy success in city schools. 

Last year, according to education reports, just half of the city’s third through eighth graders achieved proficiency on state reading tests, with only 40% of Black and Latino children meeting the same standard... Read the full article