Pennsylvania's elected fiscal watchdog is urging state officials to end the Keystone Exams, saying they're not federally required and it's costing taxpayers nearly $100 million between 2015 and ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro said this will free up as much as two hours of time now spent taking the state exams for classroom learning. "Less testing means more learning," he said. The 2022 results from the ...

For many area school districts, Keystone exams signify a variety of changes: A change in structure, a change in approach, and, at the moment, an apparent change in the quality of student exam scores, ...