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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

3,000 children repeating third grade under new Indiana literacy requirement

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:14.0

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0:19.0

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0:20.0

When I got the purchase agreement, and he did have things in there that was pertinent to me.

0:24.6

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0:26.6

Call Simple Quarters 317, 900 home.

0:29.6

3,040 students are going to be repeating third grade for not meeting reading proficiency standard.

0:34.6

So the Indiana Capital Chronicle has the article.

0:37.7

Other people have put it out as well that, yes, as you said, 3,000 Indiana students are now required to repeat the third grade.

0:46.9

And look, we're going to get into this with Nikki Kelly coming up at 1015 from the Capitol Chronicle.

0:53.5

But what is wild is that not that long ago,

0:57.5

before this law was passed,

0:58.9

there were thousands of kids who could not read

1:03.2

and they were just sending them to the fourth grade.

1:05.9

Right, just passing them on.

1:07.2

But now there was legislation passed in 24

1:10.2

tied to the I read exam that says, no, if they

1:13.2

aren't proficient, they have to repeat third grade. And this is the first enforcement of it.

1:17.7

So here we are, 3,040 students repeating third grade. Yeah. What's wild is, and this should give you

1:25.8

an idea of how many kids could not read, just a couple

1:28.8

of years ago, according to the Capitol Chronicle, only 412 kids were held back.

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