Florida’s New High School Requirements and Alternatives Show Legislators Were Listening
Some could say that they even offered a mea culpa. From Travis Pillow in the Tallahassee Democrat:
The expansion of career education has been tied to broader changes to high school graduation requirements in competing proposals advanced by both House and Senate.
Right now, students must pass the geometry exam to graduate under a law passed in 2010, which took full effect this year. Legg, the Senate’s Education chairman, said that “perhaps in our zeal to raise standards” lawmakers had created “artificial roadblocks to success” by making more of the end-of-course exams mandatory for would-be graduates.
Under the Senate’s bill, end-of-course exams would count for 30 percent of students’ grades in classes other than tenth-grade English and Algebra I, where the exams would remain mandatory.