And we still haven't eliminated high-stakes testing. -Angela
Districts Prepare for New High School Diploma Rules
by Morgan Smith
Some Texas high school students who failed state
standardized exams this spring were given a reprieve under the
comprehensive education bill that Gov. Rick Perry signed in early June.
Under current law, they would have had to take 15 state standardized exams to graduate. With the changes in House Bill 5
that begin in the coming school year, they will need to pass only 5.
Shortly after Perry signed the bill, which cleared both chambers of the
Legislature unanimously, the Texas Education Agency
announced that current high school students would not have to retake
exams they had failed in any of the six subjects that the new law
removed from the state’s testing requirements. They are algebra II,
chemistry, English III, geometry, physics and world history.
But as educators welcome the relief that the legislation
brought from what were widely considered onerous state testing
requirements, some school districts are now looking ahead at another
part of the law, which will take effect in the 2014-15 school year and
broadly expand the courses that will count toward a diploma.
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