Summer school won’t be an option for 3rd graders who are reading below grade level after the 2016-17 school year. It will be a state law. That’s the impetus for the Intense Summer Reading program being piloted in select school districts around Iowa, including DMPS. Follow the link for more about the program and what the new state law may mean for Iowa’s 3rd graders: https://staging.dmschools.org/2016/07/summer-reading-program-pilots-new-state-law/