With help from officials and supporters, students organize queer proms and lavender graduations

Improvement is broad based, but rates for white and Asians students still lead all others

Many students score poorly on the test. Many states have ditched the requirement

No current high school students will have to pass the PARCC exam to graduate.

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More students are graduating high school than ever before nationwide. New Jersey ranks second in the country for its graduation rate.

Testing the business outlook for 2015. Tracking the nor'easter's toll on beaches. The human cost of food without nutrition. Newark's bet on raising graduation rates.

The GradNation Campaign hopes to raise the national graduation rate to 90 percent by 2020.

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NJEA President Wendell Steinhauer says that teacher leader programs would help keep teachers in the profession and in classrooms.

State figures show 86 percent of New Jersey high school students graduated in 2012, up from 83 percent in 2011.

Instead of one assessment in 11th grade, students will have to pass end-of-course exams for specific subjects to receive their high school diplomas.