Elizabeth Davis

TUSCALOOSA | Students who perform exceptionally in a subject would be allowed to study that subject at a higher grade level under a new policy approved by the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education.

Before the board's vote Tuesday, there was no formal board policy for students to accelerate their learning in the Tuscaloosa City School System.

"The acceleration policy is basically a way for kids to be able to move ahead in areas that they may be progressing in," said Elizabeth Davis, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction for the system.

"For example, if they're a fifth-grader and they're advanced in reading and they read on a sixth-grade level, they would stay in fifth grade, but they would accelerate by subject," she said. Read More

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