By Carol Leonetti Dannhauser Five years ago, more than half a million adults in Philadelphia lacked basic literacy and work skills, imperiling their ability to land jobs and climb out of poverty, the Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board reported. Yet at the same time, hundreds of literacy providers operated scattershot programs all over the city, albeit with few resources, fewer notable metrics, and even less oversight. The city was suffering a "serious literacy crisis," Mayor Michael A. Nutter said, and he vowed to fix it, beginning in his own office. He retooled The Mayor's Commission on Literacy, funded it with $1 million, and hired a new director. Then the bottom fell out: the state...
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