In mid-March, members of the South Carolina Senate announced the “death” of the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test. More accurately, a handful of Republican senators reworked language into a broader ...

Officials say the new test's name is the Palmetto Assessment of State Standards, or PASS. Legislators earlier this year passed a law eliminating the Palmetto Achievement Challenge Tests and replacing ...

THE ISSUE: PACT tests; OUR OPINION: Standardized test should not be end-all in S.C. schools S.C. Superintendent of Education Jim Rex has focused on bipartisanship in making recommendations on reforms ...

The PACT test is one of two major exams that Charleston County elementary and middle school students take, and those scores are used to gauge schools' progress or failure. Schools with strong PACT ...

Schools Superintendent Jim Rex said Wednesday the percentage of students scoring "proficient" or "advanced" on the last Palmetto Achievement Challenge Tests increased across every grade and subject.