State Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn will testify in Olympia today that it's unfair to make students take an exam one, two, or three years after they have taken a course.

Dorn is proposing legislation in math and science for the second straight year which he says will bring fairness to students as Washington transitions to end-of-course exams in both subjects. Watch his testimony before the state Senate Early Learning and K-12 Education committee live.

Senate Bill 5227 requests that the state legislature change the current math assessment graduation requirement by allowing the classes of 2012 and 2014 to pass one end-of-course math exam instead of two. According to Dorn, this "will allow the assessment system to be better aligned in the transition from the High School Proficiency Exam (a single, comprehensive exam) to two end-of-course exams (algebra 1 and geometry)."

“These are end-of-course exams, and that’s when we should first administer them,” Dorn said in a statement right before testifying. “I think that’s just common sense.”

Senate Bill 5226 will ask the legislature to postpone the requirements for science assessment graduation until the class of 2017, which is estimated to save the state $20 million. The state will transition from the science High School Proficiency Exam to an end-of-course exam in biology in Spring 2012. The biology exam begins when students in the class of 2013 are in 11th grade and are one to two years removed from having taken biology.