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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools acted fast to implement the Parents’ Bill of Rights, but internal emails reveal many teachers and administrators remained uncertain about how to do so.

About three-quarters of MSCS third graders did not meet expectations in reading, which means they could face more tests, tutoring, and summer school, or get held back.

The end of the school year — typically days of celebrations and send-offs — will be filled instead with more high-stakes testing and weighty decisions about summer school for thousands of third grade students under Tennessees new learning and retention law.

“Those results will then give us the pathways for every single child,” said Jaron Carson, MSCS Chief Academic Officer in a live stream.

Schools will get preliminary scores Friday from state reading tests, kicking off a busy few days of analysis and communication with third-grade parents about what the results mean.

District Chief Academic Officer Jaron Carson said they were able to get 326 of the missing 481 students to attend summer school for the last two weeks.

Most of the students are enrolled in a summer reading program intervention and can likely advance to the third grade, but hundreds didnt sign up.

Another contract with consulting company Educational Epiphany, meant to help teachers improve student literacy, sailed through Tuesdays meeting.

The new "third-grade commitment" policy takes effect this school year ahead of a similar state law that will hold back third graders in attempts to improve literacy.

Executive director of curriculum and instruction: Amie Marsh, recently the principal of Germantown Middle School Executive director of equity and diversity: Myke Collins, recently the director of leadership Executive director of learning and support: Tracie Scott, recently an instructional leadership director Executive director of professional standards: Lauren Prater, recently advisor for the office of professional standards Executive director of exceptional children and health services:...