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Should students be able to appeal test scores? It's created a political battle in Louisiana.

Louisiana education leaders set out months ago to create a policy that would let certain high school seniors appeal test scores when those scores threaten their ability to graduate.

In the past month, controversy over the policy has exploded — pitting top state education officials against each other in a skirmish over whether softening standardized test rules will damage learning standards. The process has left local school systems uncertain about which graduation standards to use.

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