There was the enthusiasm of a packed auditorium inhabiting the 70 some attendees crowded in the Mills Center Tuesday night. The evening affair was smaller than the high school graduations that would follow in the coming weeks, but the Laclede Literacy Council and its community had much to celebrate.
The celebration for eight Literacy Council graduates achieving their HISET (High School Equivalency Test) gained additional excitement with the news that the Literacy Council was one of the few programs in state that survived federal cuts.
In previous Record reporting, we spoke with Dr. Carol Barsby, executive director of the Laclede Literacy Council on the organization’s financial woes that federal freezes had sparked earlier in the year. At the time, she was not sure whether this graduation would be the organization’s last.
For more on this story, see Saturday's LCR.
