Overall, the numbers of 4th and 8th grade students who took ... graders who were identified as English-learners in the state’s testing sample were excluded from the reading assessment in 2011 ...

On the first week of school the crisis committee accompanied parents to schools and were told by one principal that there was a vacant classroom that could accommodate about 45 grade one learners ...

Tennessee’s controversial third-grade retention law will hold children learning English as a second ... Rep. David Hawk (R-Greeneville) filed a bill to leave retention decisions up to local ...