New York state officials allowed thousands of students to graduate from high school last month even though the seniors had failed a requisite mathematics exam, because the test may not have been fair.

Many states across the county are changing their high school graduation requirements. Students in Mississippi, for example, no longer are required to pass all their final tests in order to receive a ...

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 ...

High school exit exams, which are required by nearly half the states, measure skills that students are usually taught in middle school or the first year of high school. That finding, according to a ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — Thanks to a new law, high school seniors at Lake Tahoe Unified School District no longer face an exit exam requirement. Gov. Jerry Brown, on Oct. 7, signed a bill that suspends the ...

The Kentucky Board of Education has voted to approve new graduation requirement where students will need to pass math and reading exams before earning a diploma. The board passed the proposal ...

EdSource · From housing to basketball, Fresno schools invest in the whole child Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that will allow some students who failed the California High School Exit Exam to ...

The California High School Exit Exam would be suspended for several years and its role would be re-examined under a bill introduced last week by the chair of the Senate Education Committee. Senate ...