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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two of the 12 school districts in Luzerne County — Dallas and Lake-Lehman — exceeded the state proficiency average on all three Keystone Exams this year. The Keystone Exams in algebra, biology and ...

The state Department of Education released the 2023 state test scores this month, giving Pennsylvanians a snapshot of public school student performance. The 2022 results from the Pennsylvania System ...