News in Brief: A State Capitals Roundup

More than half of California's 10th graders who took the state's high school exit exam failed it last spring, the first time that scores on the test counted toward graduation.



The results, which were released last week, showed that 48 percent of those 459,588 students who took the test received passing scores.

For students with disabilities, the results were even more distressing. About 87 percent of the special education students...

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