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Pine Bluff leaders outline third-grade literacy readiness plan as LEARNS Act rules approach
Summary
District officials described how local assessments and intervention groups will be used to identify students at risk of failing third-grade reading standards under the LEARNS Act and outlined training, curriculum and monitoring steps intended to meet the law’s 90-minute literacy requirement for students not meeting the standard.
PINE BLUFF, Ark. — Pine Bluff School District officials presented a readiness plan for third-grade literacy on the school board agenda, explaining how local assessment data and expanded interventions will be used to identify and support students who could be subject to retention rules under the LEARNS Act.
Superintendent Barbee summarized the state requirement and how the district plans to respond. She read a portion of the LEARNS Act and said the statute requires “for each student who does not meet the reading standard established by the state board by the end of third grade … the public school district … shall” provide specified supports. She added that, based on current guidance, “any student in third grade that scores on a level 1, they would be considered those students that do not meet that readiness level.”
District staff described how existing local tools will feed the plan.…
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