• School District works to increase number of students meeting third grade reading guarantee

    (Plain Press, July 2014)According to the latest announcement by the Cleveland Metropolitan School District,nearly 80 percent of CMSD third-graders complied with Ohio’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee during the 2013-14 school year, roughly doubling the number who met the standard in the fall. As of October, only 40 percent of third-graders had scored well enough on…