Third Grade Reading Guarantee

A handful of education research groups are calling on lawmakers to oppose a bill that would end the state mandate to retain a student to third grade if they don’t pass their reading test.

State leaders, educators, and researchers joined the Ohio Education Association Monday to voice their opposition to a law that mandates a student be retained if they do not pass a third-grade reading test.

Two of Northeast Ohio’s largest school districts are asking the state to re-examine how students are scored on a test that all third-graders must…

Three big school districts are pleading with state education officials to take a close look at what they think is a major discrepancy. This has to do with…

The Ohio Department of Education is touting improved third-grade reading guarantee numbers.The state says 94.1 percent of Ohio’s third graders passed the…