The Senate Education Committee has approved Senate Resolution 248, which opposes the use of the Keystone Exams as a graduation requirement and urges PDE to come up with alternative methods of assessment to show graduation readiness and that align with IDEA and ESSA. That means that those methods of assessment must provide accommodations to students permitted to have such, that the assessments are developed in keeping with principles of universal design, and that the assessments meet the PA Career Ed and Work Standards or are valid and reliable measures of the PA Core Standards for Algebra I, English Lit, and biology in ways comparable with the Keystones.