Students who don’t pass can also receive “good cause exemptions,” which allows students learning English or who have disabilities to move on to fourth grade even without passing the reading assessment ...
Taken from August to early October, the tests are the first direct year ... to English and Spanish reading scores. Houston ISD improved its sixth- and seventh-grade reading scores in English ...
The law was amended in 2016 to raise the passing score on the third-grade reading test starting in the 2018-19 school year. Statewide, the 2024 final pass rate is lower than the final pass rates ...