More students passing exit exams

More students in Los Angeles schools are passing the California High School Exit Exam - a graduation requirement - on their first try, though they still lag behind their counterparts statewide, results released Tuesday show. George Sanchez in the Daily News.

The number of L.A. Unified School District 10th-graders who passed the math portion of the exam was 67 percent, up from 61 percent last year, and 70 percent passed the English part, up from 66 percent a year ago.

Among all 10th-graders in the state, 78 percent passed math, and 79 percent passed English.