Speakers call third-grade reading retention law ‘unfair’ at town hall
Memphis-Shelby County Schools board member Amber Garcia (middle) attends a town hall meeting to discuss the state's new third-grade reading retention law on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Under the third-grade retention law, students who don’t score proficiently on the English Language Arts portion of their TCAP test are eligible to be held back unless they meet certain conditions.
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MICAH MSCS Memphis-Shelby County SchoolsAarron 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.
Ian Round
Ian Round is The Daily Memphian’s state government reporter based in Nashville. He came to Tennessee from Maryland, where he reported on local politics for Baltimore Brew. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in December 2019.
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