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Utah House rejects bill tying third-grade promotion to reading proficiency after lengthy debate
Summary
First substitute House Bill 62, which would have required schools to notify parents about struggling readers, mandate interventions and allow retention at the end of third grade (with a parental override), failed in the Utah House after extended floor debate over stigma, fiscal impacts and parental authority.
The Utah House defeated first substitute House Bill 62, a measure that would have required schools to notify parents when elementary students lag in reading, set intervention timelines and allowed holding students back at the end of third grade if they had not reached basic reading proficiency.
Representative Morgan, sponsor, framed the bill as an early-intervention policy intended to prevent many students from reaching high school without basic reading skills. "This bill requires elementary schools to notify the parents of children…
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