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Debby Wood has been teaching in Prince George's County for 38 years, and if there's one thing she never tires of, it's seeing her first-grade students when they can read a book on their own for the first time.
"Their faces light up. They are so proud of themselves," said Wood, a reading teacher at Phyllis E. Williams Elementary in Upper Marlboro. "You can't put a price on that expression."
But at an annual cost of $4.5 million, the school system has decided it must end the program for first-graders who struggle with reading.
Reading, other programs face sharp cuts in Prince George's
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