Summary: The California Assessment High School Exit Exam

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Since 2006 The California Assessment High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) was required to be taken statewide by students to graduate high school. On August 26, 2015 ,Governor Brown signed the Senate Bill 725 by Loni Hancock, D-­Oakland to cancel the state exit exam.

The state’s contract with the company that produced the CAHSEE was about to expire and education officials wanted to avoid spending millions of dollars to renew the contract for a test; some people think the test was outdated because it did not align with the new common core standards. According to Gov. Jerry Brown’s office “Students who’ve been accepted into college should not be prevented from starting class this fall because of a test cancellation they could not control,” said

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