Many states across the county are changing their high school graduation requirements. Students in Mississippi, for example, no longer are required to pass all their final tests in order to receive a ...

Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 725 by Senator Loni Hancock, D-Oakland, on Wednesday, a bill that was moved quickly through the Legislature to allow students in the Class of 2015 to receive high ...

High school graduates walk at their commencement at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Louisiana is among the half dozen states that still require exit exams to graduate from high ...

San Francisco school officials and advocates for the disabled have recently made news fighting the state requirement that special education students take the high school exit exam. Upon closer ...