Too many Black students still not passing exit exam

09-14-2009

By Cynthia Griffin/Our Weekly

“I am pleased to see that the results show that California’s high school students are continuing to meet the challenge of higher expectations,” said State Superintendent Jack O’Connell recently, as he reviewed the results of the 2008-09 California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE). The superintendent noted that by the end of their senior year, about 90.6% of the Class of 2009, had successfully passed the English language arts and math portions of the CAHSEE. This is up from 90.4% for the Class of 2008. In addition, O’Connell touted the fact that an estimated 658 students from the class of 2006 (the first graduating class required to pass the Exit Exam), an estimated 1,113 students from the Class of 2007, and about 5,233 more students from the Class of 2008 continued to take and had passed the exit exam by May 2009. (more...)

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