Responding to the critical need to improve third grade reading proficiency, CityChurch Network birthed AR Kids Read in the Spring of 2012 as 65 tutors from ten churches provided the backbone of tutors that served one hour a week to help one hundred twenty 2nd and 3rd graders to improve reading proficiency in 8 elementary schools in the LRSD and NLRSD school districts.
From that initial beginning, AR Kids Read has become a community wide effort of churches, businesses and community organizations. In addition to the 25 official “partner” churches, more than 85% of the 400 tutors are connected with a local church. Serving across racial, denomination, and geographic lines, a united church is helping to transform Central Arkansas one child at a time.
