Panel outlines a new, broader path to earn a high school diploma in NY
Diana Dombrowski – Rockland/Westchester Journal News USA TODAY NETWORK – in the D&C on 11/14/23 on page A1
New York’s new requirements for high school graduation would allow for more ways to assess what students know – outside of standardized testing – and would ensure access to career and technical education.
A commission tasked with reimagining what it should take to earn a diploma presented a dozen recommendations Monday morning to the state Board of Regents, ranging from requiring “culturally responsive” training for teachers to reorganizing credit requirements into bigger categories.
“It needed to be looked at through the lens of all of our students, but particularly those students in our subgroup categories and those students that were really having challenges and having difficulty,” state Commissioner of Education Betty Rosa said last week ahead of the commission’s presentation.