The Verizon Foundation is helping to support the start of a new Community Language and Literacy Center established at West View Elementary School in Burlington by the school in partnership with Western Washington University’s Woodring School of Education.

The Verizon Foundation is providing $15,000 for the center. In addition, Skagit State Bank is providing $500.

The West View Elementary/Woodring College of Education Community Language and Literacy Center is a place where children and their families receive support for developing their language and literacy skills and where pre-service teachers and school personnel (staff, teachers, and administrators) receive professional development in using best practices for meeting the needs of all language and literacy learners.

The Center will enhance partnerships between the students attending West View, their families and the students and faculty of WWU’s Woodring College of Education. Using existing space...