The law also requires second graders to take the IREAD assessment. Schools must offer summer reading programs for second graders considered "at risk" on the assessment, as well as third graders who ...
For the first time, second graders are mandated to take the statewide reading assessment—allowing schools to catch literacy ...
During the 2020-21 school year, 60.21% of third grade students tested below grade level on the state’s Smarter Balanced test for English/language arts. Attorney Mark Rosenbaum, representing students ...
The state’s Legislative Services Agency has estimated that about 7,000 more students would repeat third ... grade had the opportunity to receive additional reading support and retake the test ...
Statewide AzMERIT test scores in 2019 improved from the previous year, but only by a few points. More than half of all the state’s students in most categories, including third-grade reading ...