Overall, student scores declined slightly in reading — less than one percentage point — with 46.7% achieving state learning standards for their grade, compared with 47.1% the year before.

Fewer than half of Arizona’s third graders are reading at grade level — a sobering trend that education leaders hope to ...

For the past three springs — in 2022, 2023 and 2024 — 23% of DPS K-3 students were reading significantly below grade level, up from 16% in the spring of 2019, according to district data.

The biggest improvement was among kindergarteners, with nearly 79% reading at grade level or higher this year, as compared to 66% last spring — marking the first time kindergarten scores have exceed ...

The wave of early reading legislation across the country has brought a renewed focus on 3rd grade retention policies —requirements or recommendations that students who aren’t reading on grade ...

Third through fifth grade students who are below grade level in reading and math are months into a pilot program of Saturday School. Dr. Nicole Dyson is the director of elementary education.