Pupil assessment: high school exit examination: American history.

Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to develop a high school exit examination in English language arts and mathematics in accordance with state academic content standards. Existing law requires, commencing with the 2003–04 school year and each school year thereafter, each pupil completing grade 12 to successfully pass the exit examination as a condition of graduation from high school. Existing law requires that each pupil take the high school exit examination in grade 10 beginning in the 2001–02 school year, and allows each pupil to take the examination during each subsequent administration, until each section of the examination has been passed. This bill would require that a reading selection that is used as part of the administration of the examination relate to American history.