Allen County Education Partnership was established in 1991 to offer educators and business leaders an opportunity to work together to encourage educational reform and innovation in public schools.

For the past fifteen years, our primary program has been our early literacy initiative, Project READS (Reading, Early Assistance in Developing Skills), which provides services for kindergarten through third grade students who are reading below grade level. Project READS involves community volunteers as tutors for these young students, and provides instructional workshops for their parents to provide them with techniques and strategies for developing their child's language arts skills at home.