State prepares to spend $75 million to expand college-admissions-related testing to all 9th-, 10th-, 11th-graders
In a groundbreaking move 17 years ago, the state paid for all public high school juniors to take a college entrance exam at school, a way to give 11th-graders of all backgrounds a shot at college. The exam, a hit with families, became a mainstay on the state’s annual testing roster.
Now the Illinois...