We appreciate the time that local school officials and students took recently to educate a group of state legislators on what they say are problems with a new set of regulations for the Keystone Exam, ...

Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal calls for scaling back the end-of-course exams from 10 to three and axing the mandate that makes the exam count toward one-third of a student’s grade. Wednesday, the ...

WEST CHESTER >>The Keystone Exams are getting a failing grade from both school administrators and students. Not a single presenter at a meeting Friday at West Chester University spoke favorably of the ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro said this will free up as much as two hours of time now spent taking the state exams for classroom learning. "Less testing means more learning," he said. The 2022 results from the ...

Editor: The Citizens’ Voice’s chronic disservice to public education persists with the publication of six area schools exceeding state averages on the state-mandated Keystone Exams (Jan. 27). With ...

HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania’s experiment with a high-stakes student test remains in limbo as state lawmakers digest the impact of the latest changes in education policy from Washington. The Senate and ...

WEST CHESTER >>The Keystone Exams are getting a failing grade from both school administrators and students. Not a single presenter at a recent meeting at West Chester University spoke favorably of the ...