Sun Lakes Rotary Club donates dictionaries to Chandler and Gila River students

Rotary donates 4,000 dictionaries

The Rotary Club of Sun Lakes is handing out roughly 4,000 dictionaries to third graders in the Chandler Unified School District and the Gila River Indian community.

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  1. The Rotary Club of Sun Lakes is handing out roughly 4,000 dictionaries to third graders in the Chandler Unified School District and the Gila River Indian community.
  2. The club of about 100 members has donated dictionaries for 23 years, giving out 100,000 over that time.
  3. The donation comes as Chandler Unified aims to raise third-grade English language arts proficiency from an average of 53% to 58%, and as only 36 percent of Arizona third graders scored proficient or higher in reading in the most recent state data.
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