O'Connell, an avid defender of the test, which is required by a law he wrote and championed when he was in the state legislature, said this week that he would make sure school districts knew that they had to require the test be passed in order to hand out diplomas to students.
州議会にいたときに自分で書いて支持した法律で要求される試験の熱心な擁護者であるオコンネルは、今週、学区が学生に卒業証書を渡すためには試験に合格することが必要だと知っていることを確かめると言った。