A senior Education Department official who helps oversee Mayor Eric Adams’ sweeping literacy curriculum overhaul is stepping down to help run a new Brooklyn school focused on students with reading challenges.

Jason Borges, executive director of Literacy and Academic Intervention Services, will leave his post at the end of the month according to an internal message obtained by Chalkbeat.

In his new role, Borges will help spin up a school that city officials are planning to open this fall. He will serve as program director of School Planning at the Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy, which is slated to be the second city-operated public school exclusively devoted to students with dyslexia and other reading issues.

He is expected to become the school’s principal, said Naomi Peña, director of community and family engagement for the Literacy Academy Collective, a nonprofit organization that will support the program.

“I think we were all surprised initially because he was leading the [literacy] work” at the Education Department, Peña said. She said his leadership of the school would be “massively valuable” given his experience atop the Education Department’s labyrinthine bureaucracy.

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