The States picked up the tab for tens of thousands of us because voters used to understand that educating and training the next generation of workers was essential to the economic health of the country.

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He said the computerized version, which students are passing at higher rates than the paper version in pilot sites, will be cheaper to administer because states will no longer have to pick up the tab for things like grading the exam.

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