If you could see our school board office, you'd know. ;-)
But what do you think about the article? Should they promote the students or retain them? Should the students who need extra help be put in their own classroom/program so they can receive this help?
I think they should retain them.
If the individual is of sufficient intelligence, skill, behavior, and motivation to proceed a second time in the class without being a major disruption or impediment to the rest of the class or an undue burden to the teacher, then he should proceed a second time in the regular classroom. If not, then hello Special Ed.