Education in Crisis. The forum was sponsored by the Teacher Education Partnership Commission, established last fall by the Maricopa Community Colleges. Senate Republicans killed a measure aimed at protecting the state's high school graduation test from legal challenge yesterday, leaving thousands of ninth-graders uncertain whether next week's test will count.
Students can take the test every year until they pass.
But threat of lawsuits convinced the Legislature it needed to ban ninth- graders from even volunteering to take the exam. A bill to fix the problem died in the Senate yesterday, failing to get the two Republican votes it needed.