The Right to Read Adult Education Center is a community-based non-profit 501c(3) agency that provides literacy instruction to adults throughout Weld County.  It was founded in 1976 by 25 volunteers and a visionary director who created a program to share their passion for reading and writing with 13 functionally illiterate adults.  At that time, it was a one-on-one tutoring program with the motto “Each One Teach One.”

Since then, Right to Read has evolved from the one-on-one model to a classroom model, each with 15-25 students taught by professional instructors and classroom aides.  Our modern motto is “Literacy Opens Worlds,” worlds previously inaccessible by the English-illiterate adult, worlds of financial stability, success for their children in school, self-reliance and greater prosperity.  An average of 250 adults and their families attend our classes each year, taking advantage of this avenue of “opening worlds” through literacy instruction.