Pennsylvania’s requirement that public school students pass Keystone Exams to graduate from high school is again drawing ...

Pennsylvania's elected fiscal watchdog is urging state officials to end the Keystone Exams, saying they're not federally required and it's costing taxpayers nearly $100 million between 2015 and ...

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 ...

The concept of achieving proficiency on Keystone Exams as a high school graduation requirement has been a very costly failure in Pennsylvania, concludes a new analysis by the Allegheny Institute for ...

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 ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania is poised to delay the Keystone Exams as a graduation requirement again and provide alternative ways for students to achieve proficiency. Gov. Tom Wolf's office ...

The Keystone Exams were implemented in 2012-13 as an end-of-course state test to asses a student’s proficiency in a certain testing subject. Algebra I, biology and literature were the first three ...