PHOENIX — The last batch of high schoolers sweating the AIMS test can breathe easy.
Secretary of State Michele Reagan signed legislation this afternoon to immediately repeal the requirement for thousands of high school juniors and seniors to pass Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards to get their diplomas.
Reagan was stepping in since Gov. Doug Ducey is out of state at the National Governors Association conference. But Ducey press aide Daniel Scarpinato said his boss supports the move.
The state already was set to get rid of the math, reading and writing tests that are normally administered to high school sophomores, with the Class of 2016 the last one required to pass all three sections to graduate.
Juniors and seniors who did not pass the tests as sophomores get multiple attempts to try again.
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What's left, according to the Department of Education, are about 33,000 who took the math portion of the test at least once and still have not passed. The agency figures 20,000 have not passed the writing portion and 9,000 got a failing grade in the reading section.
Those numbers are not cumulative, as some students failed multiple sections.
