California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond hosted a Literacy Leadership Summit yesterday with educational and philanthropic partners to discuss how to deliver on California’s literacy and biliteracy promise, specifically his five-year literacy plan to have every child reading by third grade. Thurmond shared his vision for California to be “fully literate, fully biliterate by Grade 3” and is seeking private funding to help continue the state’s recent improvements in literacy levels. He called on educational and philanthropic partners to support the funding and implementation of the plan, which has received $200 million in one-off funding. “California is moving the right direction, we’ve seen a lot of growth, but it’s not enough…We can embark on a public-private partnership to fund a long-term plan for literacy, but we need $300,000 a year despite the state’s structural deficits…This cannot wait—we intend to roll out this five-year plan and then implement it,” said Thurmond.…