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AIMS results displease governor

The Arizona Daily Star

PHOENIX — Gov. Janet Napolitano said Wednesday she is "not happy" with the latest results of Arizona's high-stakes graduation test, which showed statewide scores improving slightly but more students missing out on a diploma.

"I think maintaining status quo on AIMS, which is a 10th grade test, is shooting way too low," she said. "The question for us ought to be, 'Why isn't every person by 12th grade, absent extraordinary circumstances, able to pass AIMS?'"

Napolitano's comments follow a more positive spin offered by Tom Horne, the state's superintendent of public instruction, who called the results "significant" when they were released to the media Tuesday. On Wednesday, he reiterated that.

Posted by Editor at July 19, 2007 07:33 AM

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