Section 7-202 - Minimum reading levels required. - Maryland Statutes

§ 7-202. Minimum reading levels required.
 

(a)  State Board to require minimum reading levels.- The State Board shall require a minimum level of reading ability for each grade 2 through 12 that rises for each succeeding grade. 

(b)  Failure to meet minimum levels.- If a county board, based on local assessment of student progress and in conjunction with the Maryland education accountability program, finds that a student in grade 3, 7, or 9 through 11 who is not moderately, severely, or profoundly intellectually limited has not met either a minimum grade level competency or the minimum reading level as required by the State Board for the previous grade, the student shall be: 

(1) Kept in the current grade; or 

(2) Enrolled in an appropriate reading assistance program as part of his instructional program. 

(c)  Limitation on withholding grade advancement.- The provisions of this section may not be the sole reason for withholding grade advancement more than once in grades 2 through 7. 

(d)  Bylaws.- The State Board shall adopt bylaws to implement this section. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 77, § 98D; 1978, ch. 22, § 2; 1985, ch. 10, § 3; 1987, ch. 11, § 1.]