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 ...

Sixty percent of this area’s high school juniors have passed the exit exam required for a diploma, a number that looks pretty good in comparison with the statewide rate of less than 50 percent. But if ...

For a decade, supporters of the California High School Exit Exam have said the high-stakes test would boost student performance while opponents countered that it would worsen the dropout rate. Turns ...

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 ...

A study out today suggests that California’s high school exit-exam policy may be doing more harm than good for the state’s lowest-performing students—especially those who are young women and students ...

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 ...