11.   The Texas accountability system, based on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, rates schools and requires students to pass an exit exam before they can graduate.

12.   These so-called exit exams create a particularly tough hurdle for students with learning disabilities.

13.   His education plan specifies that he wants voluntary national tests in two grades and that he would encourage high school exit exams.

14.   In Wisconsin, vocal parents got lawmakers to scale back plans for a high school exit exam that would have been the sole criterion for graduation.

15.   It proposes voluntary national tests in two grades and encourages high school exit exams.

16.   It says he wants voluntary national tests in two grades and that he would encourage high school exit exams.

17.   Wisconsin scuttled plans for a high school exit exam after a protest lodged mainly by more-affluent parents.