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April 28, 2010

Test scores may keep Camden seniors from graduating

Joseph Gidjunis:

Hundreds of Camden City high school seniors are unsure if they'll graduate this year after learning they failed at least part of the state's Alternate High School Assessment, formerly known as the SRA.

But Camden's seniors aren't alone, as the first round of statewide testing in January resulted in massive failure -- 90 percent of the 4,500 students who took the language arts section and two of every three of the 9,500 students who took the math section, didn't pass -- according to the Education Law Center, an urban school advocacy organization, which obtained the results of the test.

Across New Jersey, 120 school districts had no student pass the language arts section and 40 school districts saw no student pass math, said Education Law Center Director of the Secondary Reform Project Stan Karp.

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Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 28, 2010 3:04 AM
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