…or, of being a student at Oakland’s Horace Mann Elementary School.

Fresh back from D.C., where he testified before a U.S. Senate panel on global warming, state Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, will spend some quality time with some of the Bay Area’s most gorgeous ladies tomorrow.

Perata and Oakland Raiderettes will join more than 300 students to celebrate literacy in Oakland and throughout California at 1 p.m. Friday at Horace Mann Elementary on Ygnacio Avenue. Perata will open the event before Raiderettes read to students from Kindergarten through 5th grade.

Comcast has partnered with the Oakland Parents Literacy Project to host the National Education Association’s 10th Annual “Read Across America Day” at the school. In its news release, Comcast noted that only 58 percent of students graduated from Oakland high schools compared to the state average of 85 percent, and only 57 percent of Oakland students passed their basic language-arts courses.

Perata helped launch the nonprofit Oakland Parents Literacy Project in 1999, working with local school leaders determined to increase elementary students’ literacy rate. The project hosts family reading nights; organizes school site clean-ups; and sponsors several literacy-oriented activities each school year.

The NEA’s “Read Across America Day” — which falls on the 103rd anniversary of Dr. Seuss’s birth — expects more than 45 million readers across the country to pick up a book and read.