Get the Ed Chat newsletter: Enter your email for weekly updates about Alabama schools from Trisha Powell Crain: No Alabama school district had all of their third or second graders reading on grade ...

Shani Page was 16 when she dropped out of high school. “My grades were bad,” she said. “My attendance was bad. The teachers ain’t have no faith in me. So I came here.” Her mother brought her to ...

The measure, part of the Reading Sufficiency Act, designates that students who score unsatisfactory in the reading assessment cannot be promoted to fourth grade until they can demonstrate what ...

Get the Ed Chat newsletter: Enter your email for weekly updates about Alabama schools from Trisha Powell Crain: According to results from Alabama’s 2023 reading test, 11,662 second graders, or 22% of ...