5/29/08

Columbus Dispatch

A judge in Dayton says she won’t stop a high school from holding its graduation ceremony, rejecting arguments that students who failed a statewide exit exam should be allowed to participate.

Judge Frances McGee of Montgomery County Common Pleas Court said Tuesday that parents of students at Thurgood Marshall High School who failed the Ohio Graduation Test may be disappointed in her ruling, but they didn’t prove how an injunction would serve the public’s interest.

The parents of one student who failed the test had taken the case to court. The high school’s graduation ceremony is Saturday.

State law requires students to earn 21 credits of course work and pass all five parts of the Ohio Graduation Test to earn a diploma.

– Dayton Daily News