EL CAMINO STUDENTS MAY RETAKE TAINTED TEST.Byline: - Joseph Giordono WOODLAND HILLS - Almost 50 El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
tr.v. re·took , re·tak·en , re·tak·ing, re·takes 1. To take back or again. 2. To recapture. 3. To photograph, film, or record again. n. 1. a college entrance examination because several of the school's students had access to a test copy beforehand, test officials said Wednesday. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Ken Gullette, director of media relations for Iowa City Iowa City, city (1990 pop. 59,738), seat of Johnson co., E Iowa, on both sides of the Iowa River; founded 1839 as the capital of Iowa Territory, inc. 1853. Among its manufactures are foam rubber, animal feed, paper, and food products. The city is the seat of the Univ. , Iowa-based ACT Inc., of the 408 students in the area who took the exam on June 9, only the scores of the El Camino students will be invalidated. ``We determined that any security breach was confined to students from that particular high school,'' Gullette said. ``Naturally, most of the students from that school were not involved, and it is unfortunate that the actions of a few have repercussions repercussions npl → répercussions fpl repercussions npl → Auswirkungen pl for them all.'' The El Camino students were given three options, identified in letters and phone calls that were supposed to reach their homes on Wednesday: retake the test for free on July 7, take the test for free at a later date, or get a full refund of costs that start at $24. Gullette declined comment on what he termed an ongoing investigation by the testing firm into the students who reportedly had access to the test. Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. officials began an investigation after a test proctor reported irregularities in the June 9 exam. They are waiting for the test company to act before determining what, if any, action the district will take against the students, a spokeswoman said. According to school and district officials, one El Camino Real student stole a copy of the test and disseminated it to at least three others. Only one of the students actually sat for the exam that day, officials said. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion