88% Of Detroit Third Graders Below Proficient In Reading; New Law Held None Back

88% Of Detroit Third Graders Below Proficient In Reading; New Law Held None Back

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  Law that bars moving along children who can’t read filled with exceptions

"The Detroit Public Schools Community District has not held back any third graders under a new state law that says children must be able to read before advancing to fourth grade.
...The law contains many exceptions to the policy, allowing Detroit to not retain any third graders based on the new law for the just-completed school year.
...In an English Language Arts section of the M-STEP, a standardized state test administered to every public school child in 2018-19, the most recent year available, 88% of the district’s third grade students were less than proficient in reading...Read all.