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20,000 Students in Broward Read for the Record

Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

More than 20,000 students in Broward County joined millions of kids nationwide Thursday in an attempt to break the world record of reading the same book on the same day. Every kindergarten and pre-K class in the district participated in Jumpstart's Read for the Record campaign that aims to promote literacy and early childhood education.

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