More than 800 Columbus 3rd graders haven't passed reading test

With three weeks to go until the start of school, Columbus City Schools still has more than 800 third-graders who haven't gotten the state reading test scores they need to advance to the fourth grade - that's more than twice as many students as last year. As things stand, about 17 percent of all the district's third-graders face repeating the third grade, up from about 9 percent at this time last year, according to a report Tuesday evening to the Columbus Board of Education.