Posted on 10/08/2015 7:23:19 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Upending a hallmark of California school reform, Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed a bill that will award diplomas to thousands of young people who failed the California High School Exit Exam in the past decade.
The new law, which takes effect in January, will allow former high school students who failed the test as far back as 2004 to now graduate, as long as they passed all of their required high school classes. The new law effectively undoes the decade-old requirement, imposed after a hard and bitter fight, that students pass a standardized exam in order to earn a high school diploma in California.
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The worst legacy of Ross Perot - high stakes testing.
Even their mediocrity sinks the longer the kid is in school.
This is so Funny, Most employers already throw away any application if the applicant went a Los Angeles Unified School, now it will go Statewide!
I Guess the dumber than dirt, proud moron generation’s will find out the hard way how destructive this really is.
And the dumbing down of America continues unabated.
See tag line.
“Iirc one needs a HS diploma to qualify as a DREAMer.”
Ah! That would make this make sense
Isn’t the transformation of America exciting to watch?
as a Brownian movement is upon us here in the Goldarn Stat...
The manure ponds of Stinkymento overfloweth.. again.
You’d be surprised how many “hard workers” can’t figure out the simple fact you explain here.
But the firm and unwavering support of the general population of CA
California just lowered their academic standards retroactively?
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