How many of them took the test?
What was the pass rate?
I have no doubt that the public schools are a mess, and also that they are worse than they have ever been. But way, way, WAY too many kids are enrolled past 8th grade, and the necessity of pretending to educate the ineducable and the unwilling distorts everything.
If you think that greater than 25% of 18 year olds are capable of twelfth grade work - EVER - and however delivered - I can only ask, what color is your unicorn?
That is the heart of the problem right there.
But we aren't supposed to acknowledge it exists.
Sio it goes hand in hand with the P.C. requirement to pretend all students have equal potential and that low performance is somehow the fault of the system and (supposed) tight fisted taxpayers.
The liberal mantra is always - "It's broken."
The education system is broken, the immigration system is broken, the justice system is broken, the prison system is broken, the gun control laws are broken.
To the P.C. mind, reponsibility never seems to lie with people who don't perform - just with organizations and systems.