Mayor Taveras Drops Everything to Read

Mayor Taveras Drops Everything to Read

Providence Mayor Angel Taveras joined several other government, business, and education leaders in reading to students in Children's Friend classrooms on March 2 for the Center's Drop Everything and Read Day.

Taveras, who participated in Head Start — a federally funded program that offers a wide range of services to low-income children aged three to five years old — as a child, read at Children's Friend's Friendship Center in Providence. Children's Friend is a leading provider of child welfare and family support in Rhode Island.

Drop Everything and Read Day was organized as part of the National Education Association's Read Across America Day, celebrated annually on Dr. Suess' birthday to honor the beloved children's author.  

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