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 ...

Nearly a decade of frustration, anxiety and disappointment ended for Marisa Herrera this month when her long-awaited high school diploma arrived in the mail. “Finally!” she remembered saying after ...

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 ...

A California appeals court will not hear arguments over the state’s controversial high school exit exam until July 25, ending any chance that students who have failed the test will earn a diploma this ...