are passing state exams. 71.2% met or exceeded expectations on state exams for the 2006-2006 school year. This is up from 54.3% in the previous school year.

says that teachers in the area are barely rated below standard. They found only one out of 363 teachers were rated below standard. The auditors want less inflated scores and better feedback.

are going to be seeing less tests after complaints saying field tests are taking away regular learning. Field tests are mainly tryout exams given to students.

is going to be doing a tough audit of 12 school districts in Connecticut that have not met progress for five straight years in a row.

of New York are going to be increasing the age a student can drop out of high school from 16 years old to 17 years old.

that African-American students in suburban schools in the state are have poor passing rates. The article states that just in the Baltimore county school around 1/3 of the nearly 2-dozen high schools had a passing rate of under 60%.

The Washington Post also comes out with an article on passing rates just for the algebra exam. They got data back from 19 of 24 school districts in the state including all of those in the Washington region and feel that the passing number of 51,000 the state gives is too high. The paper has a passing number 42,700.