Re: Students take Exit Exam concerns to Capitol

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  Students take exam angst to Capitol

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By Peter Hecht - Bee Capitol Bureau



Published Friday, December 8, 2006

Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A4

http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/89459.html


Luciana Reyes, 17, stood up in the audience at a unique Capitol hearing on the
California High School Exit Exam with tears in her eyes and her voice bursting
with anguish.

"It's hard for people like me," she began, instantly fighting back sobs. "It's
every parent's dream for us to pass the exit exam. But it's hard. Why can't
students who work very hard at school and get good grades, why can't they pass 
on that?"..

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A reasonable question, certainly.  But unfairness in the test is not the only answer.  There is plenty of evidence that California schools that serve poor students and minority students have poorer teachers than schools that serve other children.  So one thing to look at is putting better teachers into those schools.



Art

   
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