Schools / Education news
Mayor Tracy Wills Worley this month returned to the same kindergarten classroom she attended as a child to kick off a yearlong school district plan to boost reading and language skills.
The Comprehensive Reading Improvement Plan for kindergarten through 12th-grade students will focus on reading for this school year, officials said.
Included in the plan is additional training for teachers and administrators, motivational programs for students and a series of workshops for parents.
Part of the goal, district spokesman Mark Eliot said, is to make “every child a reader by first grade.”
Special events such as the mayor’s visit will help children equate reading with positive role models, he said.
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