Senate Bill 1045 Summary

• Suspends requirements of Michigan's third-grade reading law for the 2020-2021 school year, including prohibitions on grade advancement and assessment mandates.

• Allows school districts and public school academies to waive the requirement that pupils scoring below grade level on the grade 3 state English language arts assessment not advance to grade 4 during the 2020-2021 school year only.

• Exempts schools from the requirement to conduct reading assessments at least 3 times per school year in grades K-3 for the 2020-2021 school year.

• Maintains all other provisions of the reading law including approval of assessment systems, early literacy coach requirements, reading intervention programs, and reporting requirements for other school years.

• Changes statutory language from "shall" to "must" throughout the section for consistency and clarifies definitions by adding "CEPI" (Center for Educational Performance and Information) as an acronym.