40 percent — The number of first grade students “well below grade level” in reading in 2020, compared with 27 percent in 2019, according to Amplify Education Inc. First grade in particular — “the ...

Two reading programs that kick off in July are giving Grove first-grade students a jump start on their reading skills.

But Chelsea students who entered 1st grade reading below grade level made 19 times the progress on DIBELS last year than Abeyta had seen previously, she said, so “there obviously is a financial ...