About 1% of third and fourth graders were held back this year under Tennessee’s 2021 reading intervention and retention law.

Just 0.88% of Tennessee public school third graders were held back this year under the state's controversial reading law, ...

“Though the pass rate is slightly lower than 2022-23 (84.9%), third graders achieved an all-time high proficiency of 57.7% in English Language Arts (ELA) for the 2023-24 school year,” the MDE press ...