PHOENIX — The latest scores indicate Arizona students taking the AIMS test are improving.
The state education department says a higher percentage of Arizona students passed the AIMS reading and math portions this year than did last year at nearly every grade level.
The percentage passing the essay section fell in every grade except eighth grade.
Arizona has yet to get 75 percent of students at any grade level to pass the math and reading sections. But the state is nearing its goal.
Over the past three years, writing scores have fluctuated, but state officials said the scores are stabilizing.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne says it's progress, just not as fast as they'd like.
Third through eighth-graders and high-school sophomores take the AIMS exam each spring.
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Federal and state officials use the scores to determine which schools are performing and which are failing.
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