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Carroll County Superintendent Billy Joe Ferguson’s district had a 19 percent failure rate on the third-grade reading test. Photo courtesy Nick Chiles

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Statewide, 14.83 percent of third graders—5,612 students—failed to reach the minimum score needed for entrance into fourth grade on the first test.

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