Amendment to give third graders another route to fourth grade passes Senate committee
A new state bill working its way through the state legislature would provide options for deciding when to implement the third-grade retention process.
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third-grade retention Tennessee State Legislature Tennessee Department of EducationAarron 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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