The state’s third-grade retention law is forcing thousands of students back in the classroom during their break if they want ...

That means parents likely won't know whether their child will have to repeat third grade until about a month before school starts or even later, school officials said. No students were held back ...

The policy would add extra support for kindergarten through third grade students ... holding students back, partly because of sparse research tracking students through high school.

Mississippi school superintendents expect to ... Already about 5,000 students are being held back between the first and third grade, he said. Bryant said he failed the third grade and didn't ...