Facing terrible test scores, states move to nix graduation tests

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Following an embarrassing batch of post-pandemic test scores, education bureaucrats are working hard — not to help students pass their graduation exams but to eliminate them as a requirement to graduate.

In New York, a petition calls on state education leaders to “decouple” the Regents exam from its graduation requirements on the grounds that too many poor and minority students fail the test.

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