descriptive word the founder and CEO of the Education Trust used several times during a school funding session at the Mackinac Policy Conference. The trust is a nonpartisan research and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C.
“Kids in Michigan are in a free fall relative to kids in other states,” said Haycock, citing the trust’s education data analysis released in a report last month. “We were 28th in the United States in 2003 in reading and 41st in 2015.”
She added 1 in 3 white fourth-graders are reading at grade level, coming in at 49th in the country, according to the analysis.
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