He attacked a task force charged with setting
meaningful high school graduation requirements for how its «biggest thought on how to fix the problem turned out to be another task force,» and called it «a kind of a spoof.»
Not exact matches
Maintain the
requirement that states and
school districts issue and distribute annual report cards, including disaggregated data on student achievement and
high school graduation rates, while also streamlining data reporting to ensure
meaningful information is easily available to parents and communities.
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.
In 2015, the Los Angeles
school board decided to roll back
graduation requirements by allowing students to pass classes required for college entrance with a grade of a «D» instead of a «C.» And in Los Angeles and elsewhere, students who are not on track to graduate from
high school can now take «credit recovery» classes — many of which are devoid of any
meaningful content.