Reading Excellence Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Reading Grants Title II: Amendments to Even Start Family Literacy Programs Reading Excellence Act - Title I: Reading Grants - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to establish a new title XV Reading Grants program. (Sec. 101) Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to State-established reading and literacy partnerships to make subgrants for local reading improvement programs and tutorial assistance programs. Provides for peer review panel evaluation of grant applications. Sets forth the requirements relating to partnership membership, contractual agreements, functions, duties, fiscal agency, pre-existing partnerships, multi-state partnerships, and performance reports. Requires partnerships that receive such grants to make competitive three-year local reading improvement subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) with one or more schools that: (1) are identified for school improvement; and (2) have a contractual association with community-based organizations of proven effectiveness with respect to reading readiness, reading instruction for children in kindergarten through third grade, and early chil…