Exit exam is waived for certain students By Becky Bartindale/San Jose Mercury News
It’s official: For this year only, many special education students in the Class of 2006 won’t have to pass California’s exit exam to receive a high school diploma, under a bill signed Monday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The reprieve for some students […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, January 30, 2006:
A Formula for Failure in L.A. Schools Because they can’t pass algebra, thousands of students are denied diplomas. Many try again and again — but still get Fs. By Duke Helfand/Los Angeles Times
Each morning, when Gabriela Ocampo looked up at the chalkboard in her ninth-grade algebra […]
Weekly Recap for January 23-29, 2006:
California’s exit exam fails employers Opinion by Russell W. Rumberger/Los Angeles Times (Sunday) RUMBERGER is professor of education and director of the UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute at UC Santa Barbara.
NEARLY 100,000 high school seniors — about one in eight — have flunked the California high school exit exam. […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, January 27, 2006:
States spending more on Medicaid than education USA Today
WASHINGTON (AP) — States now spend more on health care for the poor than they do on elementary and secondary education, a policy group said Thursday in its annual review of efforts to deal with the growing problem […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, January 26, 2006:
65% solution touted for classroom funding By Deepa Ranganathan/Sacramento Bee
Everybody wants more money in the classroom. No one wants a tax increase. The solution? Distribute education dollars differently, pouring money into classrooms without raising taxes. The idea is the basis of the 65 Percent […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Wednesday, January 25, 2006:
Test’s moment of truth painful for some With chances to pass dwindling, students feel the heat By Laurel Rosenhall/Sacramento Bee
On a damp, gray day earlier this month, as Juan Calderon passed through the halls of Hiram Johnson High School, a teacher handed him a sheet of […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Tuesday, January 24, 2006:
Assembly OKs exit test waiver for special ed By Jim Sanders/Sacramento Bee
Legislation to allow 20,000 to 25,000 special education students to receive their high school diploma this year without passing an exit examination sailed through the Assembly on Monday. Senate Bill 517 won bipartisan support, 69-1, […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Monday, January 23, 2006:
Scarce funds for remedial programs San Jose Mercury News
So many students are failing California’s high school exit exam that many school districts are not receiving any of the $20 million in special funding set aside for tutors. The money, approved by legislators last year, is […]
Weekly Recap for January 17-22, 2006:
Relief for exit exams OK’d Special-Education Kids In Many Cases Can Skip 2006 Test By Becky Bartindale/San Jose Mercury News (Thursday)
California special-education students in the Class of 2006 got good news Thursday: Many won’t have to pass the state exit exam to graduate with a high school diploma. […]
Top Stories and Commentary for Thursday, January 19, 2006:
At-risk students get extra support County schools scramble to tutor seniors in danger of failing exit exam By Helen Gao/San Diego Union Tribune
High schools across the region are ramping up their tutoring and remedial programs for hundreds of seniors whose inability to pass the California High […]