Jessica Sliwerski (center), the chief executive officer and co-founder of the Ignite! Reading company, explains her company's literacy-tutoring program at Western Hills Elementary School in Little Rock in this Feb. 21, 2024, file photo. Western Hills Elementary this spring completed its third semester of the Ignite program as part of its daily literacy instruction block of time. The Little Rock School District has placed the school in network 3, the tier of greatest district support. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Thomas Metthe)
The Little Rock School District's sorting of its campuses last year into three different tiers of support -- categorized by grade levels and student achievement or lack of it -- is promising but also a work in progress, district leaders said this past week.
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