CBE for 4th grade

The Oklahoma legislature overrode a veto of a bill Tuesday so the state's third graders can now be promoted to fourth grade even if they flunk an end-of-year exam, KJRH in Tulsa reports.
The move doesn’t have support from Gov. Mary Fallin or State Superintendent Janet Barresi. Fallin vetoed amendments to the state law on Tuesday, but the state House and Senate originally passed the bill with more than 75 percent in favor, so it was sent back to lawmakers.
Previously, the state’s Reading Sufficiency Act required students who scored unsatisfactory on the exam to repeat grade level.
The law now allows third graders six “good cause exemptions” to avoid repeating a grade level. Students can advance to the fourth grade if teachers work with them to assemble a portfolio of work that demonstrates basic literacy; students can take one of four alternative standardized reading tests; complete a summer reading academy; have limited English-language proficiency and spend less than two years in an ELL program; have a disability and are placed in an individual education program assessed with alternate achievement standards or receive remedial instruction in reading for more than two years and have been previously held back.
"This is an additional burden for our 4th and 5th grade teachers,” the Oklahoma State Department of Education tweeted.

Another tweet reads, "We have compromised the children's lives of those who will now be socially promoted."