Maryland did not have enough research before it decided to begin withholding diplomas from high school seniors who fail exit exams next year, according to a study released Wednesday.
Twenty-six states require students to pass exams to graduate — most enacting the mandate in the past few years — but Washington was the only state that joined this past year, according to the study by the Center on Education Policy, an independent Washington D.C.-based think tank.
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