Sentences with phrase «local diploma»

But public school students will have to wait until at least fall to find out if they will have to earn the more prestigious and rigorous regents» diploma or whether local diplomas will be acceptable beyond the next four years.

The Board of Regents today adopted regulations to expand the criteria under which students with disabilities may be eligible to graduate high school with a local diploma.

This is akin to the practice for many decades (until 2012) in New York State, where a Regents Diploma denoted a markedly higher level of academic attainment than a local diploma, and it's somewhat similar to the practice in today's England, where you can complete your schooling with a General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), but if you're bent on university, you stick around to earn a more - demanding A-level certificate.

New York scrapped the local diploma for a reason.

The Coalition Comments on the Superintendent Determination Pathway to Graduation for Students with Disabilities In August 2016, the Coalition submitted comments [PDF] to the New York State Education Department on the superintendent determination as to academic proficiency for certain students with disabilities to graduate with a local diploma.

There was little difference between the two groups in the percentage of students who earned a local diploma or the still more rigorous Advanced Regents diploma.

This increase was almost entirely accounted for by a rise in Regents diplomas, which are considered more rigorous than a local diploma; 41.5 percent of the students at small schools received one, compared with 34.9 percent of students at other schools.

The Regents adopted regulations to expand the criteria under which students with disabilities may be eligible to graduate high school with a local diploma.