Americorps
interns
could
supervise
America
Reads
tutors
who
were
being
paid
out
of
work-‐study
funds,
but
Americorps
interns
could
not
supervise
other
Americorps
interns
who
were
functioning
as
America
Reads
tutors).
Similarly,
the
community
college
put
the
America
Reads
program
into
the
hands
of
the
director
of
its
pre-‐existing
college-‐level
academic
tutoring
program.
This
director
expressed
the
hope
that
tutoring
elementary
school
students
would
one
day
eliminate
the
need
for
her
college
level
remedial
tutoring
program.
Finally,
one
of
the
state
universities
hired
a
part-‐time
professional
director
to
conduct
site
visits,
to
establish
the
curriculum,
and
to
supervise
an
Americorps
intern
who
handled
the
paperwork.
However,
the
lack
of
funds
to
pay
a
professional
director
was
most
problematic
at
another
state
university,
where
the
program’s
day-‐to-‐day
administration
was
trusted
to
a
year-‐to-‐year
Americorps
intern.
The
intern
pointed
out
that
she
couldn’t
place
tutors
at
two
of
the
college
town’s
seven
elementary
schools
because
the
principals
had
such
bad
experiences
with
her
predecessor.
Furthermore,
the
intern
complained
that
she
didn’t
have
enough
time
to
complete
all
the
duties
and
paperwork
assigned
to
her.
She
pointed
out
that
even
though
the
university
had
been
allocated
enough
work-‐study
money
to
fund
200
tutors,
she
had
only
enough
time
to
recruit,
train,
and
place
50
tutors.
Even
though
the
commercial
program
relied
upon
volunteers,
its
startup
cost
was
$40,000.
This
fee
paid
for
a
large
quantity
of
books
and
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