When Jasmine Sims heard that she would have to pass a battery of four exams or face missing out on a diploma, she freaked.
“It was like a bomb was just dropped: Class of 2009, you have to pass these tests to graduate,” said Sims, an 18-year-old senior at W.E.B. Dubois High school in northeast Baltimore.
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