Seniors scramble to pass exam

State offering emergency testing

8:38 PM,
May 16, 2013

Brian Freeman

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When Forrest County School District officials found out Wednesday that the state education department was offering one last chance for seniors to take exams required for graduation, they rushed to get their three eligible students into a district car and headed to Mississippi State University where the tests were being given.

Graduation is today and there wasn't any time for the seniors to study before getting to Starkville to take the exams.

"We were doing everything we could to get them up there, and the teachers we sent with them were actually remediating as they drove," Superintendent ...