CLEVELAND, Ohio – Across Ohio, school districts are promoting thousands of third graders who didn’t meet state reading benchmarks, placing unprecedented demands on limited resources for ...

I go to Westside Elementary and I’m in the third grade. I’m in the KidsZone program. At school, I like playing math learning ...

Under legislation known as the Third Grade Reading Guarantee, elementary schools have been required to screen children in grades K–3 for reading deficiencies and to create improvement plans for ...

The state reading law took effect last year and led to the retention of 1.2% of third graders in 2023, which came out to 898 students. The numbers generally match third grade retention rates in ...