Reading Recovery program ending

The Reading Recovery supplemental instruction program for struggling elementary school readers is going by the wayside in the North Little Rock School District. It will be replaced with different instructional strategies and a new curriculum.

As a result, the district’s 14 Reading Recovery specialist positions will be eliminated for the coming 2019-20 school year.

Also being eliminated are about 14 positions in the district’s pre-kindergarten program — three teachers, three aides and eight family service managers. Those jobs are being eliminated because a federal grant that provided pre-kindergarten instruction for about 40 children is phasing out.

The affected employees in both cases will have opportunities to apply for available jobs within the district, Superintendent Bobby Acklin said.