State legislature keeps district on its toes with graduation committees

 

 

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By Emily Hilley-Sierzchula

One of the new education laws signed by the governor in May, 2015 gives current high school seniors another option besides passing all five end-of-course (EOC) State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) exams. Senate Bill 149 allows students who fail one or two EOC exams to graduate after unanimous approval by an "individual graduation committee" (IGC).

Before the law took effect last May, Texas high school graduates were required to pass exams in English I and II, algebra, U.S. history and biology.

Marble Falls Independent School District (MFISD) administrators started preparing procedures for IGCs last spring in anticipation of the bill passing, said Melissa Fields, Ph.D., MFISD testing and accountability coordinator.

Graduating seniors last year passed all five EOCs, and “right now, the current class is on track to make it on time and complete their exams" to graduate without the IGC option, Fields said.  

For more on this story, see The Highlander, Tuesday, Jan. 12. 

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