From the LVRJ: The roadblock standing between more than half of Clark County’s 24,000 high school juniors and graduation may have been removed, or at least reduced, on Wednesday by the Nevada Board of Education.
The board lowered the minimum passing score to 242 out of 500 possible points on the controversial math proficiency exam required to graduate, a change that applies to current juniors and sophomores who originally needed a score of 300.
District sophomores haven’t taken the exam yet, but juniors have taken it twice and 59 percent haven’t met the original passing score. In their first attempt at the test last spring, members of the class of 2015 posted Clark County School District’s worst pass rate in recent history with 68 percent of students failing the test.
All 14,107 district juniors were expected to retake the math proficiency for a third time next week. But Wednesday’s decision could mean that nearly 6,400 of them are off the hook, their failing scores turned into passing scores overnight. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-and-west/education-board-lowers-math-test-minimum-passing-score
So, all the people who have taken proficiencies over the years and failed the math portion, will they be able to get their diploma's?
This may very well open up a can of worms and the state will see several lawsuits from people who failed the math portion and passed all the other proficiencies and they will say they now should been able to graduate.
And can we say "dumbed down"?
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