Help raise awareness of adult education during National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week! 

Why Literacy Matters

• 1 in 4 adults in Orange County read below the 8th-grade level
• 16% of adults in Orange County do not have a high school diploma
• 29% of inmates in United States prisons have low literacy skills
• Children of parents with low literacy skills have a 72% chance of being at the lowest reading levels
• 47% of children in Orange County are not ready for kindergarten
• The United States ranks 12th in the literacy world