FILE - In this May 10, 2011, file photo, Van Buren Elementary school teacher Debra Keyes teaches a class in Stockton, Calif. California will spend $50 million for literary instruction at dozens of poor performing schools to settle a lawsuit that claimed the state hasn't done enough to help students learn how to read. The advocacy law firm Public Counsel sued in 2017 to demand the California Department of Education address its "literacy crisis." The state had not followed suggestions from its own report on the problem from years earlier, the lawsuit claimed. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge in December approved the settlement, which was announced Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. It outlines a three-year grant program to improve reading and writing instruction at 75 schools. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
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