October 22, 2009

 Members of the Class of 2015 will be the first graduates who will be subjected to a new requirement that factors their score on a Pennsylvania exam into a course grade and determine if they can leave high school.

  The state's Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted to approve the Keystone Exams proposal that the State Board of Education has been pushing to strengthen the state's graduation requirements. It now goes to the attorney general for final review and then will be published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin, which is the final step needed for this initiative to take effect.   Read more