What about reading?

It seems like in Idaho everything you read talks about the poor state our kids and math. In fact we have charter school that are supposed to focus on math. The Idaho Statesman put out a "Discover Treasure Valley" insert and one of the things it lists is how the Treasure Valley schools performed in 2005. What I find interesting is out of 61 schools it ends up 80% missed reading but only 48% missed math. So do we focus on math because it's the trendy thing to do? Where are the charter schools whose core is reading?