RM> But no exit exams and no national test....
 
MS>If you want to cut down on ill-qualified graduates, 
MS>raising the _state_ standards on that competency test 
MS>would be a lot more cost-effective than requiring a 
MS>federal competency test in addition to the state one.
So you have no problem with exit exams, but prefer local or
state exams rather than national?  I'd kind of like to see
some uniformity myself, but I think we all recognize the
difficulties involved in getting everyone to agree on what
the exam should be.  Also, there is the problem, recently
discovered, of trying to safeguard an exam that is given 3
hours earlier in the East than in the West.... 
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