Parents are stressed, and kids are coming home crying.
These are the emotions more families say they’re experiencing this summer because of a new law that will likely mean more third graders are kept from progressing to the fourth grade.
The law that is affecting this year’s rising fourth graders will hold back students who do not pass the state’s standardized early literacy test, or IREAD, by the end of the third grade and don’t meet one of the mandated exemptions…