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Michigan Democrats’ big education priority: Reform or kill read-or-flunk law
DATE: December 21, 2022
Michigan Democrats who take control of Lansing in January may move to repeal a controversial law requiring students who test more than a grade behind in reading to repeat the third grade.
The law has many exceptions that allow students to move onto the fourth grade, but Democrats say it is inequitable and punitive. Michigan State University researchers found that only 545 students were actually held back this fall, even though nearly 5,700 were eligible for retention.
Black students and those from low-income families are more than twice as likely to be held back compared to their white and wealthier peers, researchers found.
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