Schools prep students for summer IREAD test as tougher third grade retention law takes effect

All hands were on deck at the PATH School at Stephen Foster School 67 on Monday.

In Destiny Patterson’s room, students used context clues to find out the meaning of the word “pliable.” Down the hall, the definition of “adjective” was on the board as students deconstructed a reading passage.

It was two days before the students began their retake of the state’s third grade literacy exam known as IREAD, and this was the very end of the charter school’s IREAD boot camp. The goal is for students who just finished third and even second grade to pass the test…

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