Theresa Harrington

Richmond High Advisor Edel Alejandre, 2d from right, joins his students outside the school to discuss their options after they were unable to take the exit exam in July because it was cancelled.

Theresa Harrington

Richmond High Advisor Edel Alejandre, second from right, joins his students outside the school to discuss their options subsequently they were unable to accept the leave exam in July because information technology was cancelled.

The state Associates Appropriations Committee on Wednesday unanimously canonical SB 725, which would eliminate the requirement for class of 2022 seniors to pass the California High School Leave Exam.

Some seniors who were planning to take the exam in July are in limbo subsequently the California Department of Pedagogy abruptly cancelled it.

The bill, which originally called for the development of new visual and performing arts content standards, this week was gutted and amended past its author, Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Oakland. The activity will replace language in the original bill with new wording exempting the students from the requirement to pass the exam to receive a diploma.

"She wanted to put this forward because of the 5,000 students who can't graduate because they can't have a test that doesn't exist anymore," said Larry Levin, a spokesman for Hancock. "That's why it was amended into another bill of hers."

Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Oakland

Courtesy of Sen. Loni Hancock

Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Oakland

Levin said he expects the full Assembly to vote on the beak Thursday. Since it includes an urgency clause, it would require two-thirds approval to laissez passer.

Merely Levin said he doesn't expect that to be a problem, since all Republicans on the Appropriations Committee canonical it and in that location was no public opposition.

If approved by the Associates, Levin said the pecker would head to the Senate for approval on Monday and could reach Gov. Jerry Brown as early as Monday afternoon.

"So, theoretically, he could sign it Monday nighttime and it could be police at midnight," Levin said. "We'll run across what happens."

Senators Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, and Carol Liu, D-Canada Flintridge are principal co-authors of the bill, along with Assemblymen David Chiu and Phil Ting, who are both San Francisco Democrats. Liu has too authored SB 172, which would suspend the leave test through 2017-18.

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