Posted on EdSource by Fermin Leal —March 31, 2016

High school diplomas at last for students who failed exit exam

Nearly a decade of frustration, anxiety and disappointment ended for Marisa Herrera this
month when her long-awaited high school diploma arrived in the mail.  “Finally!” she remembered saying after ripping open the envelope, fighting back tears. “I didn’t think this day would ever come. But I can finally say that I’m a high school graduate.”

Herrera, now 27, is among the thousands of students across California who failed the state’s high school exit exam but are now receiving diplomas retroactively because a new state law has eliminated the test as a graduation requirement. And she’s hardly alone in waiting that long.  <Read more…>