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The Kentucky Board of Education kicked off its examination of the state's graduation requirements at its regular meeting April 11 with a national overview of what other states are doing to ensure their high school graduates can successfully transition to careers and college.

A student can take a distance learning course from the University of Arizona, and the course credit can apply to graduation requirements at a large number of colleges and universities, without geographical restrictions.

Getting admitted to a four - year college is a graduation requirement at YES Prep, which, like KIPP, has been admirably transparent about its college - completion rate, currently at 41 percent within six years.

In fact, personal portfolios are a graduation requirement at many colleges and universities.

Not exact matches

But Brian Sampson, president of Associated Builders and Contractors» Empire State chapter, said the graduation requirements would be onerous for non-union contractors, given the ratio of journeymen to apprentices the state Labor Department mandates at firms.

Burke said he wants the county to close a «loophole» in the law by adding a graduation rate requirement of at least 30 percent for state - certified apprenticeship programs.

«These new regulations preserve the rigor of New York's graduation requirements while at the same time offering students comparably rigorous options that keep them engaged in school and learning.

«One of the things the Regents work group is looking at is, are there adjustments we might make to the phase - in of our graduation requirements?

And having at least one first - author publication is a common graduation requirement, notes UNC study lead author Joshua Hall, director of science outreach and the UNC Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program, so it's useful in categorizing whether a student's productivity meets expectation.

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Being accepted to a four - year college is a graduation requirement — one that almost every senior at the original YES campus has met.

«They are now dropping out or at risk of dropping out because they have little or no chance of meeting tougher high school graduation requirements,» Feldman said.

This occasional series, launched in January 2005, looks at the growing push to reform secondary education addressing issues from preventing dropouts to assessing graduation requirements.

«With XQ, Emerson took on a big, tough challenge, laden with a Gordian knot of tradition, state graduation requirements, college entrance requirements (and the tests that go with them), and the traditions of prom, football, and everything else,» observed Mary Ryerse, strategic director at Getting Smart, a Minneapolis — St. Paul nonprofit, who was among the judges for the competition.

«If this bill passes, students would no longer have an option to take electives, including some AP courses, beyond those offered at their traditional schools nor could they enroll in extra courses to catch up on graduation requirements,» Tucker said.

That graduation requirement set the passing standard at «needs improvement,» which is roughly equivalent to NAEP's «basic» level.

«Jobs» for Community Improve Skills At one high school, community projects are the key to building reading and math skills that enable students to pass basic standards tests, a graduation requirement.

Similarly, in Revolution at the Margins, Frederick Hess reports that limited competition had little impact, but the threat of serious competition from charter schools and vouchers in 1995 - ’96 led Milwaukee Public Schools to reform with Montessori options, decentralization, tougher graduation requirements, more transparent school report cards, advertising, and empowerment of their more innovative principals, who had previously been treated with contempt.

Barbara Blackburn, a counselor at George Washington High School, in Charleston, West Virginia, says picking a major and taking the requisite courses became a graduation requirement in that state ten years ago.

Students enroll for a variety of reasons, but most come to fulfill graduation requirements, make up credits for missed or failed classes, or take Advanced Placement (AP) and other courses that are not available at their physical school (see Figure 1).

These students are over 1.6 times more likely to meet a key graduation requirement, over three times more likely to be eligible for a state merit scholarship, and over 3.8 times more likely to take at least one AP exam in a charter school compared to their peers who do not receive charter lottery offers.

Take a look at how states are carrying out federal requirements for calculating and reporting graduation rates under the No Child Left Behind Act and determining whether schools have made adequate progress.

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

Washington and Maryland require high schools, at the beginning of each school year, to provide students and parents with a copy of the graduation requirements.

To ensure continuity between the curriculum, graduation requirements, and school policies at the various BASIS campuses, members of the School Boards represent School Site Managers, Community Members, BASIS parents, BASIS Schools, Inc., and BASIS.ed.

And teacher experience implicitly captures the effects of the prevalent graduation requirements and labor market conditions at the time when teachers were hired.

The Maryland State Board of Education last week conducted hearings on a proposed bylaw to state education statutes that would allow school superintendents to waive college - graduation and teacher - certification requirements for parents who wish to teach their children at home.

The article looks at alternatives to standardized tests as high school graduation requirements, profiling the East Side Community High School in New York City which has replaced standardized tests with a combination of projects and oral presentations which it considers more authentic as assessments.

Topics include teacher - student relationships, the participation of parents of students who were in jeopardy of not graduating, and teacher mentoring as part of the program to help at - risk students fulfill graduation requirements.

Last year then N.J. Education Commissioner Chris Cerf had said passing the new PARCC tests in high school would not be a requirement for graduation for at least three years.

A caring staff, alternative graduation requirements, up - to - date technology, and resources make SAILS a model in at - risk programming.

These challenges stem from individual responses: some students need to work at an individualized pace, some need a hybrid arrangement where they can attend in - person electives combined with lab - based core requirement work and others require credit recovery to fulfill their graduation requirements.

Some LA Unified school board members want to raise graduation requirements to require at least a C in college prep classes, undoing a vote of the previous board to lower the requirement to a D. For the Class of 2016, less than half of graduates were eligible for the University of California and California State University systems, which require a C in those classes.

Additionally, while seven members of the class of 2013 were retained at some point during their high school careers — most of them as freshmen and sophomores — none of them were retained because they did not meet the college acceptance graduation requirement.

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The Ethnic Studies Committee, which LA Unified unceremoniously disbanded last year, has been renewed by the district, and members agreed to meet for up to three more years with a goal toward incorporating ethnic studies as a graduation requirement, according to Derrick Chau, director of secondary instruction at LA Unified.

«What really convinced me was, it's not a graduation requirement,» said Kevin Nguyen, a junior at Garfield and president of his class of about 400 juniors.

Students will meet the graduation requirement by correctly answering at least 65 of the 100 questions.

Graduate students who meet the state eligibility requirements for licensure will receive an Educator License with Stipulations (ELS) at the start of the program and the Professional Educator License (PEL) upon graduation.

Once Adamowski recalibrated graduation rates for the years preceding his reign, he then changed graduation requirements with his «nothing lower than 55 grade», credit recovery that allows a truant student to make up a year's course work in 2 weeks at a computer, and other such tricks.

These struggling students often end up behind in gaining needed requirements for graduation and college, and are at greater risk of dropping out.

Gary Miron, an education professor specializing in evaluation, measurement and research at Western Michigan University's College of Education and Human Development, is concerned about the rate at which many states are adopting online learning programs, or even making participation in these programs a graduation requirement.

The 1983 Nation at Risk report, which marked the start of the modern era of education reform, did not so much as mention the dropout problem even as it called for higher graduation requirements.

1800 students and parents staged a demonstration at the capitol building in Albany, NY in an effort to ease the strict new high school graduation requirements around the Regents exams.

At least five states now require an online course as a graduation requirement, and many schools that turn to online learning find a growing number of programs available, all with varying degrees of depth and breadth.

At Collegiate, working with the college counselor to complete college applications is a graduation requirement!

eAchieve Academy is ideal for students who want to meet the same graduation requirements as their peers studying at public or private schools in southeastern Wisconsin, but wish to do so with a more flexible schedule.

Prohibited exemptions: District also sought flexibility on when attendance is captured and wanted to create own graduation requirements, but TEA will not allow districts to be exempt from those areas at this time.