Fewer than half of Arizona’s third graders are reading at grade level — a sobering trend that education leaders hope to reverse with a new statewide literacy plan.| KJZZ
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Matthew Casey has won Edward R. Murrow awards for hard news and sports reporting since he joined KJZZ as a senior field correspondent in 2015.| KJZZ