the family literacy initiative also showed moderately positive outcomes; in fact, greater family participation in the family literacy program was associated with greater increases in parent reading skills, library use, and school involvement. although child participation in early childhood education classes was not correlated to an increase in pre-literacy or math skills, parent participation was correlated with higher child ability to name numbers, understand stories, and learn english. the school readiness initiative showed small but statistically significant improvements in child communication and social-emotional school readiness skills. sri children also had higher scores in english proficiency, and slightly higher scores on mathematical assessments.