This week Gov. Jerry Brown made official what has been state policy for several years: he signed a bill abolishing the California High School Exit Exam. Known by its initials as CAHSEE — and ...

State officials are discussing whether to postpone enforcement of California’s new high school graduation exam because so many students are failing the test. Less than half of the state’s current 11th ...

Thousands of struggling high school seniors are likely to be denied a diploma after the state Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated California’s exit exam, a hotly debated gauge of competency in math ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In ordering Connecticut to overhaul its education system, a state judge suggested an exit exam requirement for students to graduate from high school. It's a strategy some states first implemented in ...