The teachers unions are blaming the dismal scores on covid which doesn't explain why whites and asians are still able to pass.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/facing-terrible-test-scores-states-move-to-nix-graduation-tests/ar-AA15J1MP?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=c8eda9fe068a4868afdaabd85289e476
dec 27 2022 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.
The sponsoring organization, Advocates for Children, has landed on the wrong solution to a very real problem: Poor and minority students are suffering in the current education system. But the right answer is to help them learn rather than hand them a
meaningless diploma.
New Mexico’s high school class of 2024 will not be required to pass an exam to graduate, though they still must sit for the test. Officials at the state’s Public Education Department justified their decision based on the pandemic, and the state’s
American Federation of Teachers president praised the move.
Oregon, an early adopter of the pandemic excuse, enacted a law in the summer of 2021 temporarily suspending its requirement for graduates to pass state math, reading, and writing tests. This may soon become a permanent policy: In September, the Oregon
Department of Education issued a review of state proficiency requirements, in which it recommended eliminating a state-level essential skills test as a requirement to graduate.
New Jersey’s graduation test requirement is also on the chopping block. The test will be administered for the class of 2023, but a passing score is not required. In early December, progressives testified against existing requirements at several grade
levels, with a teacher’s union official calling out “structural and systemic racism” in the current testing scheme as the pretext.
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