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Michigan Senate panel advances bill scrapping retention in third-grade reading law
DATE: January 31, 2023
A state Senate committee on Tuesday advanced legislation that would scrap Michigan’s third-grade reading law requiring students to be reading at grade level before being allowed to advance to the fourth grade.
Senate Bill 12, sponsored by state Sen. Dayna Polehanki D-Livonia and introduced on Jan. 12, would delete a provision in the 2016 law prohibiting the promotion of a third-grade student to the fourth grade if they read a grade level behind based on their score on the state’s reading assessment.
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