After 26 years, LeVar Burton has turned his last page for Reading Rainbow. According to NPR, "no one—not the station, not PBS, not the Corporation for Public Broadcasting—will put up the several hundred thousand dollars needed to renew the show's broadcast rights." This on the heels of news that classroom fixture The Weekly Reader and its parent company (Reader's Digest Association, Inc.) have filed for bankruptcy. What childhood institutions are left unscathed?
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