Gillian 4 00 a. M. Thanks for having me. Im Gillian Turner and this is americas newsroom. The threat a repeating third grade now is being designed to motivate students to work harder in school as some schools are struggling to overcome major setbacks lingering from the pandemic. Bill third grade is a critical benchmark. Those who cant read are four times more likely to drop out of school. Gillian memphis, tennessee, 76 of third graders there right now not proficient in reading. Only 1 of those students were held back a year. Bill at problem chronic absenteeism. More than a quarter of students are missing at least 10 of the school year. It puts them of greater risk of dropping out. The governor from arkansas Sarah Huckabee sanders with us yesterday. We have to get back to the basics of teaching math, reading, writing and american history. We cannot perpetuate a lie to our students and push this Propaganda Leftist Agenda Teaching our kids to hate america and hate one another. Its one of
After critics said a disimportant potion gnat number of minority or disadvantaged students were receiving low schools. mississippi s retention policy is a success for the model. officials have received calls from more than two dozen other states looking for information about how they have do it there. perhaps a sign of growing national curiosity as we try to boost the test scores and recover the learning loss. bill: put a spotlight on it the stunning results. not good. thank you for that. we want to share some results of a poll we did. put it on screen here. our fox news poll what we found. a lot of numbers on the screen. focus on the middle number here. the first category reading and writing. in that category reading and writing 54% say too little. good citizenship 70% say too little. math, science, tech, 50% say too little. it comes to racism in the u.s.,