For a 16-year-old, Iris Padilla's resume looks pretty good: Not only is she already a senior close to completing all the credits needed to graduate from Richmond High, she's president of a Latin ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The legal saga surrounding the California high school exit exam continued Tuesday, as an attorney challenging the test tried to persuade an appellate court that students who failed it ...

There is something wrong with our educational system when Liliana Valenzuela, a high-school senior with a 3.84 grade-point average and ranked 12th in her high-school class, cannot pass the English ...

EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing While the state’s standardized testing program is being revamped during the transition to the new Common Core State Standards ...

A group of 10 high school students and their parents filed a lawsuit Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court challenging the controversial exit exam nearly all California public high school students ...

Thousands of California high school seniors from this past school year can’t graduate because they need to pass a required exit exam – and the state has stopped offering it. Legislative leaders ...

The latest results of the California High School Exit Exam echoed a similar refrain from past years, with the number of seniors passing the test holding steady year-over-year but showing gains in the ...

A California appeals court will not hear arguments over the state’s controversial high school exit exam until July 25, ending any chance that students who have failed the test will earn a diploma this ...