For a 16-year-old, Iris Padilla's resume looks pretty good: Not only is she already a senior close to completing all the credits needed to graduate from Richmond High, she's president of a Latin ...

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 – ...

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, ...

High school graduates walk at their commencement at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Louisiana is among the half dozen states that still require exit exams to graduate from high ...

A decade-long push by states to make high school students pass an exit exam before getting their diplomas has stalled as politically sensitive student-failure rates contribute to a growing public ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The legal saga surrounding the California high school exit exam continued Tuesday, as an attorney challenging the test tried to persuade an appellate court that students who failed it ...

As the state looks to replace the California High School Exit Exam with a new version, or eliminate it altogether as a graduation requirement, it remains difficult to find much consensus among ...

The standardized test, known as the NJGPA, is usually given to 11th graders in public schools as a requirement for graduation. Critics say the test has long served as a barrier to graduation for ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) – California high school seniors have one less hurdle to leap before graduation near future, after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill eliminating the California High School Exit ...

California students are getting better at passing the high school graduation exam, but the test may be on its way out. The state is in the midst of an education overhaul as schools begin adopting ...

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 ...

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 ...