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Sumner County staff outline tight timeline and logistical challenges for new third-grade retention rules
Summary
District leaders told the Board the state timeline for third-grade retention is tight: raw scores due May 26, parent appeal window opens May 30, and final notifications in late June/July; staff said 549 students scored below the 40th percentile on the screener and warned of transportation, staffing and funding strains for a scaled-up summer program.
Sumner County Schools administrators briefed the school board on implementing Tennessee's revised third-grade retention law and warned the timeline and operational requirements will strain existing summer programming and staff resources.
"The timeline is tight," Jean Hesson, the district's elementary supervisor of instruction and instructional technology, told the board as she walked through the state-required calendar. Hesson said the district sent home parent communications and home literacy reports on Feb. 3 and that the state timeline includes several required dates: raw scores will be due to districts on May 26; the parent appeal window opens May 30; and final retention notifications are scheduled for June 24 for families not participating in interventions and July 14 for families who did participate in summer programming.
Hesson described the three measures the district will use to review students: EZ-CBM (the…
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