Contrary to what another spouter has stated, a school absolutely cannot lose state funding for failing to meet the 95 percent testing participation rate. The State Senate and Assembly passed S2881/A4485 and it was signed into law by Governor Chris Christie Nov. 9, 2015: http://goo.gl/3EUda. You can learn a lot from doing your research and not just listening to rhetoric. Only 17 states are left that have graduation tests. NJ is the only one left that uses PARCC for this.