Maryland education leaders are ushering in a new literacy plan meant to boost student success as part of the statewide shift to the science of reading.
At a board meeting Tuesday, 11 members voted in favor of adopting the fourth version of the policy, with only one member opposing the measure. In June, the original draft faced heavy criticism because of a section requiring schools to hold back struggling third-graders for a repeated school year.
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