Del. Carrie Coyner, who’s a Republican, worked with two Democrats in the Senate – Louise Lucas and Jennifer McClellan – to craft the Virginia Early Literacy Act. It aims to ensure that all third graders can read well. To ensure passage, Coyner also worked with experts at the University of Virginia’s school of education and with the law school’s State and Local Government Clinic to research the best approach to early literacy and to lobby for the measure.