Read To Succeed Summer Program Is Going Virtual This Year

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Pennsylvania political and educational leaders are borrowing a basketball star to emphasize the importance of summer reading! Philadelphia 76ers Tobias Harris, State Senator Vincent Hughes, and other local leaders announced Monday the "Read to Succeed Summer Program" is going virtual this year.

"We also can make even bigger moves into teaching our youth our history through books and through many other resources," Harris said. "I'm an avid reader, I read a lot in my day-to-day. Throughout this pandemic, I've read a bunch of new books."

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The free program, which has a track record of boosting reading skills among Philadelphia schoolchildren, will begin online July 6.

The registration deadline for the four-week program has been extended to June 25.

For more information and to register, click here.