The State Board of Education is moving closer to a deal that would replace the ACT exam with the SAT college entrance exam. The state says the SAT's parent company, the College Board submitted a winning bid to provide tests for 143-thousand students each year for the next three years.
The state has used the ACT for decades, but the SAT's bid was reportedly about one-point-four-million-dollars-a-year lower than the ACT bid.