24 states are likely to reduce the no-detention policy in schools from 2018 with the Union Cabinet and Parliament approving the amendment of the relevant provision of the right to education act. It will allow the states to bring back evaluation-based promotions.
The change in the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act became necessary due to the fall in learning outcomes that translate into an over 20% drop out at Class IX.
Students are promoted automatically till class VIII. But now they will be tested twice – in class V and VIII and those who fail in the March exam will be given another chance in May. Else the students will be detained in the same class.
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