The single easiest bill for California legislators to pass this year probably was Senate Bill 725, giving about 5,000 high school students the ability to graduate without taking the state’s high ...

Massachusetts used to require a standardized statewide test called the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS, but officials are going back to the drawing board after residents voted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Jersey is among just seven states that still require students to pass a test to graduate. (Getty Images) Jill Norton, an ...

Denying diplomas to students who fail the high school exit exam almost certainly will have to be delayed at least a year, three members of the state Board of Education said Thursday. And, it appears, ...

SACRAMENTO (AP) – About 11 percent of this year’s senior class has not yet passed the high school exit exam and won’t be able to graduate on time, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack ...

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Three out of four South Carolina students passed the stateís high school exit exam on their first attempt in 2009, according to results released Nov. 24 by the South Carolina Education Department.

California has decided that any student in the past 11 years who met all high school requirements except passing the exit exam can get a diploma anyway. You heard that right: A bill signed Wednesday ...