EdSource

High school exit exam may be suspended immediately

The California High School Exit Exam may be suspended immediately, possibly letting off the hook thousands of seniors who need to pass it to graduate this year, under a bill passed today by a ...
Los Angeles Times

Without an exit exam, we fail

RICHARD J. RIORDAN is the former mayor of Los Angeles and the former state secretary of education. IN HIS EYE-OPENING book, “The World Is Flat,” New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman warns that ...
SFGate

Exit exam too hard -- reprieve likely / State may delay denial of diplomas to students who fail

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, ...
EdSource

High school diplomas at last for students who failed exit exam

Nearly a decade of frustration, anxiety and disappointment ended for Marisa Herrera this month when her long-awaited high school diploma arrived in the mail. “Finally!” she remembered saying after ...
Los Angeles Times

Rate of passage of exit exam is the lowest yet

One in 10 high school seniors in the class of 2008 failed to pass California’s exit exam by graduation, the lowest rate of passage since the test became mandatory to earn a diploma three years ago, ...
GoUpstate

Former students who failed high school exit exam still have time to get diploma

South Carolinians who failed the high school exit exam can petition school districts for a high school diploma. Last year, the South Carolina General Assembly passed Act 155. The law eliminated the ...