All of Anniston’s third-graders will be able to make the jump to fourth grade thanks to provisions of the Alabama Literacy Act that take a variety of evaluations into account.
Anniston school board members were told Thursday about 16 third-graders who went to summer learning camp in Juneas part of the retention portion of the Alabama Literacy Act.
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