April 28, 2000

Colorado Will Require and Help Pay for ACT Exams

By SARA HEBEL

A new Colorado law will require each public high-school junior, beginning in spring 2001, to take the ACT college-entrance examination, with the state paying as much as $1-million a year to pick up students' registration fees.

Colorado Gov. Bill Owens, a Republican, hopes that forcing students to take the test might lead of them more to go to college, according to Dick Wadhams, the governor's press secretary. The test results also will provide a way to measure

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