Panthers in the Community
WATCH: Carolina Panthers host reading pep rally at Thomasboro Elementary for 400 third grade students
The Carolina Panthers, Bank of America, and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools encouraged 3rd grader students from seventy CMS elementary schools as part of the team's Sir Purr's Pawsome Readers Program. The semester-long program encourages young readers to improve literacy rates and reach grade-level reading proficiency through reading incentives in the classroom and year-end measurements of reading scores.