SB269 Alabama 2020 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Tom Whatley

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2020

Title

Education, K-3 grades, Alabama Literacy Act, provisions against promoting students who fail to demonstrate sufficient reading skills, deleted, references to good cause exemptions, deleted, Act 2019-523, 2019 Reg. Sess., am'd; Sec. 16-6G-5 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, the Alabama Literacy Act, commencing with the 2021-2022 school year, third grade students who fail to demonstrate sufficient reading skills will not be promoted to fourth grade, unless a good cause exemption is granted.

This bill would delete the provisions against promoting students who fail to demonstrate sufficient reading skills to the fourth grade and would delete all references to good cause exemptions.

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