The largest company in the state is White Hat Management, headquartered in Akron and created by Akron entrepreneur David Brennan. White Hat's Life Skills vocational high schools, located in Cleveland, Akron, Cincinnati and Youngstown, enroll about 900 students, according to the department. The class of 2004 showed improvement in all tests with the exception of writing, where there was no change. Otherwise, the test results released yesterday showed no surprises. They now begin taking the test in the eighth grade and have two opportunities every year thereafter to retake the parts they have yet to pass.
Seniors have an extra chance at the end of their last year.
The state reported that 93 percent of high school seniors statewide have passed all five parts, which means that about 8,000 are in danger of not receiving a diploma unless they retake and pass the remaining tests by June. Those numbers are little changed from a year earlier, the department said. Likewise, there was little change in overall results, the state said. We are now archiving all the stories in this section starting from June 1, 2000. Go to the archive.