-> grade level (Zernike, BOSTON GLOBE, 9/25).  If a significant number
-> of third-graders in one school are not at grade level, the state
-> could possibly take over that school.
Exactly what should happen-that is management's failure.  I have worked in a 
school managed by the state directly.  Seemed better than the petty 
infighting that goes on among administrative types. More attention was paid 
to the students and teachers than to admins gloating over who got the title 
of the week.
 
->    From the GLOBE:  "Until third grade, educators say, students
-> are learning to read.  After third grade, they are reading to
-> learn, and any student who can't read falls fast and far behind in
-> every subject."
And remediation is very difficult and expensive - often beyond the district's 
and government's ability to pay.
--- Maximus 2.02
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