Law You Can Use, a column from the Ohio State Bar Association, recently published a Q&A on the Third Grade Reading Guarantee:

In 2012, the Ohio legislature enacted the Third Grade Reading Guarantee. This law requires schools to identify reading deficiencies, create specialized reading improvement and monitoring plans, and provide intensive reading interventions. With some exceptions, the law requires third grade students to achieve a minimum score on state reading assessments to progress to fourth grade.

Read more at Ohio’s Third Grade Students Must Pass Reading Test to Enter Fourth Grade.