Last spring, 81% of Idaho's high school students graduated on time — a slight increase from 2022. All told, nearly 21,000 students graduated in four years, and about 4,800 did not. Still, 2023's four-year graduation rate remains far short of the state goal: that nearly 95% of students earn a high school diploma on time. It also holds with a familiar pattern — four-year graduation rates have hovered between about 80% and 82% since 2016....
Oregon high school students won't have to prove basic mastery of reading, writing or math to graduate from high school until at least 2029, the state Board of Education decided unanimously on Thursday, extending the pause on the controversial graduation requirement that began in 2020 .The vote went against the desires of dozens of Oregonians who submitted public comments insisting the standards should be reinstated, including former Republican...
Published Nov. 17, 2023The big story: High stakes testing has been a cornerstone of Florida's accountability-based education system for more than two decades. The Florida Senate is exploring ways to pare it back, in the name of freeing public school districts from what some have called “onerous” burdens. So far the proposals, which include ending high school graduation algebra and language arts test requirements, have won near universal...
