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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. High school exit exams are dissipating in states from coast to coast, to the praise of some and dismay of others. The pattern caps ...

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 governor on Wednesday signed a bill that eliminates the California High School Exit Exam graduation requirement for seniors in the class of 2015 who didn’t pass it. Senate Bill 725 by Loni Hancock ...

Radford, now 27, was unable to enroll in a medical technician program, where she hoped to earn a phlebotomy license, which would allow her to work in a clinic or hospital drawing blood from patients. ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky graduates nearly 90 percent of its high school seniors every year, one of the highest rates in the country. But last year, state officials said, only 65 percent of those ...

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 ...