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 – ...

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 ...

In 2006, California experienced a slight increase in its high school dropout rate, the first such increase in seven years, according to a study released on October 31 by the 55-year-old Human ...

The current overhaul of California’s student testing program is skipping, for now, the California High School Exit Exam, the one test that’s truly high stakes. If students don’t pass, they don’t ...

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 ...

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, ...

Grads file in at the Patterson High centennial graduation in May. The district estimates about 10 students did not join the group solely because they did not pass the high school exit exam. Nan Austin ...

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, ...