Sarasota County School District officials have removed a reading passage from the fifth-grade curriculum over concerns that the excerpt may violate the state's ban on teaching critical race theory.

Here's a look at a fifth grade State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness reading passage from last year. In this 2016 photo, students in San Antonio takes a practice STAAR exam. Lisa Krantz ...

Almira Elementary School fifth grade teachers Ms. Mary Hejnal and Mr. John Whelan focus on skill building in preparation for the Ohio State Tests.

Unlike third grade, these families had no pathway to fifth grade from fourth grade. There wasn't a clear idea of how it would go as early as January.