The Senate Education Committee moved a bill Tuesday that would delay the use of the Keystone Exams as a graduation requirement and project-based assessment until 2018-2019. “Changes will need to be made to the graduation requirement. There are unintended impacts, or consequences, of the graduation requirement as it’s currently laid out” said the bill’s sponsor, committee Chairman Lloyd Smucker, who voiced concerns that some students who failed to pass their Keystone Exams were held back in remediation classes until they do. “The project-based assessment is not working,” said Smucker, a Lancaster County Republican. Sen. Andy Dinniman, the ranking Democrat on the committee who supports the bill, said he was “astounded” at the opposition that came from the school districts. “They felt 26 hours of testing is destructive to education and destroying the curriculum,” said Dinniman, D-Chester County.

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Source: PennLive.com, by Madison Russ on June 09, 2015 at 4:09 PM; PSBA Daily EDition, June 10, 2015.