Amendment to third-grade retention law would give students an out to being held back
Rep. Mark White (left) filed an amendment that would provide schools with another way to measure students’ reading proficiency outside of the single, English Language Arts TCAP score currently used under the law. He is pictured talking with Rep. Sam Whitson (R-Franklin) during a Tennessee's General Assembly meeting of the House Public Health Committee in October 2021. (Mark Humphrey/AP Photo)
The amendment would provide students with another way to measure reading proficiency outside of the single, English Language Arts TCAP score currently used under the new law.
Aarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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