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PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona is getting failing grades when it comes to high school standards for covering chemistry and biology.

The nonprofit Thomas B. Fordham Institute has given the state a "D'' for its school science standards describing the classroom work as generally weak on content and plagued by disorganization and a frustrating lack of cohesion.

Arizona is among several states beginning to establish a common set of science standards that will be internationally benchmarked. The framework is known as the next-generation science standards.

The Arizona Republic (http://bit.ly/xraQpH ) reports the Washington-based group describes itself as committed to the renewal and reform of primary and secondary education in the United States.

Ten states received an "F'' for their science standards, including Wyoming, Wisconsin and Montana. Only California and the District of Columbia received an "A."