Arkansas school districts hand out hundreds of exemptions to new rule requiring that 3rd graders be held back for low scores on standardized reading test. Meanwhile, kids whose educations are being subsidized by vouchers don't have to take the test or meet the standard.
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In two Central Arkansas school districts, almost half of the third graders who did not pass an end-of-year literacy test were granted exemptions from Arkansas' new requirement that they be held back…