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State Touts First Year of Required ACT Testing
Associated Press (07/17/13)Now that Louisiana requires high school students to take the ACT, the number of students taking the college admissions test has increased by around 11,000 in 2013. In addition, the number of students with scores of 18 or higher, which allows them to attend college without having to take remedial courses, increased by 3,600. The State Education Department said in a recent news release that there was "a 20 percent increase in college eligible students." State Superintendent of Education John White commented that the state's requirement that students take the ACT test "is about opportunity, especially for those students too long denied it. Some students may go directly to college. Some may pursue technical training. Others may enter the workforce and go back to school one day. The point is that they have these ACT scores in their pockets. Their right to continue their education can never be taken away."
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