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 seventeen years, our primary programs have been our early literacy initiative, Project READS (Reading, Early Assistance in Developing Skills), and our parent outreach, Parent Literacy Enrichment. Project READS provides services for kindergarten through third grade students who are reading below grade level. The program involves community volunteers as tutors for these young students, often on a one-on-one basis. Parent Literacy Enrichment provides instructional workshops for parents, offering them techniques and strategies for developing their child's language arts skills at home.

Allen County Education Partnership also works to strengthen both academic and societal communities through programs such as the ITT Excellence in Education Award and Tools for Teachers. The ITT award provides funds for unique school projects in science, technology, and mathematics. Tools for Teachers is a free store that distributes school and office supplies to area teachers.

A promising future depends on an awareness of educational needs and actions to meet those needs. Allen County Education Partnership is dedicated to focusing its resources to those ends.