The purpose of this funding is to support direct student tutoring in reading to focus on closing achievement gaps and accelerating student reading achievement. The tutoring would include programs that deploy trained tutors to classrooms across the state to support students with reading. Tutoring programs will engage research-based practices and implement literacy rich schedules for identified students that would benefit from these additional supports. The goal is to provide targeted individual or small group tutoring and other student level instruction and support to improve grade level reading by the end of third grade.