Roughly 5.6 percent of Michigan third graders could be required to repeat third grade due to low reading scores, according to a new report from Michigan State University’s Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, or EPIC.
This is a slight improvement from the 5.8 percent of third graders who could have been held back in 2022, but remains higher than the pre-pandemic rate of just 4...
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