Looking At Other Ways To Graduate

An Indiana panel, working to create new graduation guidelines for the state’s high schools, wants to get rid of the graduation qualifying exam requirement. The Graduation Pathways Panel recommends students take the SAT, ACT or a similar college entrance exam, instead of End-of-Course Assessments. Students who don’t pass the tests could still qualify to graduate through other means, such as taking college-level courses, getting an industry-recognized work credential or getting a qualifying score on the military aptitude test. Opponents are already lining up for the debate.