City Education Department Launches NYC Reads 365 Initiative

Students across New York City will soon have greater access to age-appropriate reading material. Children’s and young adult books will be made available in schools by the City Education Department. The effort, NYC Reads 365, ensures each NYC school will receive approximately 40 books with bookmarks each year all of which are included on lists compiled by the department. All books for each grade level include fiction and non-fiction, graphic novels, history, and series collections, and will be updated every year.

NYC Reads 365 was developed in accordance with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s efforts to make sure all students will be able to read at grade level by the 2nd grade within the next decade. He has also promised that by 2018, all elementary schools will have in-school reading specialists.