San Francisco school officials and advocates for the disabled have recently made news fighting the state requirement that special education students take the high school exit exam. Upon closer ...

December 4, 2025 - A new literacy intervention program is being rolled out in San Diego, Alameda, San Mateo and Riverside counties, to help teenagers in juvenile detention grasp the basics of reading.

High school exit exams are dissipating in states from coast to coast, to the praise of some and dismay of others. The pattern caps off a years-long trend that has only accelerated since the pandemic ...

While the state’s standardized testing program is being revamped during the transition to the new Common Core State Standards, the fate of the high school exit exam – the one test students must pass – ...

Question 2 on the November ballot seeks to end a state mandate that Massachusetts public high school students pass the MCAS in order to graduate. Load YouTube video The MCAS, officially called the ...

The number of states requiring students to pass an exam to receive a high school diploma continues to fall, a sign that attitudes towards the once-popular general competency exams have shifted ...

A controversial 1979 New Jersey law mandating that high school juniors take an exit exam before they can graduate may soon see some changes. Bill S50, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Teresa Ruiz, ...

At least six states are quietly bestowing retroactive diplomas on tens of thousands of former students who never passed their state's required exit exam, sparking a heated debate about rigor, fairness ...

More states could abandon high school exit exams as a graduation requirement for their students as general support for standardized tests cools. Policymakers in Florida, New Jersey, and New York, ...

The California high school exit exam is dead. The short and purposeless life of the exam began in 2001 when it was first administered to ninth-grade volunteers. It ended last week when Gov. Jerry ...