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Parr, Andrew J. – Washington State Board of Education, 2022
Engrossed House Bill 1121, signed into law during the 2021 Legislative session and codified in RCW 28A.230.320, provides the State Board of Education (SBE) the authority to establish an emergency waiver program to allow school districts and local educational agencies (LEAs) to waive certain high school graduation requirements on an individual…
Descriptors: High School Students, Graduation Requirements, COVID-19, Pandemics
Pileggi, Molly; Strouf, Kendra – Philadelphia Education Research Consortium, 2019
This brief is an addendum to an earlier report, "Getting on Track to Graduation" (see ED613890) published in May 2018 by the Philadelphia Education Research Consortium (Crofton and Neild, 2018). Focusing on two cohorts of first-time ninth grade students (the Classes of 2019 and 2020), Getting on Track to Graduation examined the extent to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Credits, Graduation Rate
RMC Research Corporation, 2021
The New Hampshire Department of Education's (NH DOE) Bureau of Career Development (BCD) realized that students experienced inequitable access to career and technical education (CTE), with evidence suggesting that geographic location of high schools and CTE centers played a key role in driving inequitable access. To better understand the specific…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Access to Education, Equal Education, Barriers
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Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2020
These are the appendixes for the report, "Implementation of Career- and College-Ready Requirements for High School Graduation in Washington" (ED606463). The study looked at differences in the percentages of 2018 graduates who met the requirements and of 2018 graduates who did not across student groups (by socioeconomic status, English…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Graduation Requirements
Houston Independent School District, 2016
The Optional Flexible School Day Program (OFSDP) is approved by the Texas Commissioner of Education and is offered by the Houston Independent School District (HISD) to provide students with flexible school hours and days of attendance. The goal of the program is to improve the graduation rates for students who are in danger of dropping out of…
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, School Schedules, Nontraditional Students, Nontraditional Education
Houston Independent School District, 2015
The Optional Flexible School Day Program (OFSDP) is approved by the Texas Commissioner of Education and is offered by the Houston Independent School District (HISD) to provide students with flexible school hours and days of attendance. The goal of the program is to improve the graduation rates for students who are in danger of dropping out of…
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, School Schedules, Nontraditional Students, Nontraditional Education
Alabama State Department of Education, 2016
This brochure presents state statistics for Alabama: School Personnel 2015-16; Student Assessment 2014-15; Alabama State Board of Education members; Financial Data FY2015; Graduation Rates 2013-14/2014-15; Alabama Public Schools 2015-16; Public School Size and Enrollment 2015-16; Graduation Requirements 2015-16; Career and Technical Education…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, School Personnel, Student Evaluation, Reading
Houston Independent School District, 2014
The Optional Flexible School Day Program (OFSDP) is approved by the Texas Commissioner of Education and is offered by the Houston Independent School District (HISD) to provide students with flexible school hours and days of attendance. The program offers opportunities for students to make progress toward completing high school if they are unable…
Descriptors: Flexible Scheduling, School Schedules, Nontraditional Students, Nontraditional Education
Zhao, Huafang; McGaughey, Trisha A. – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2013
This brief describes an evaluation of the "Online Pathway to Graduation" (OPTG) program in Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools (MCPS) during the 2012-2013 school year. The OPTG program provides students who participate in an alternative learning opportunity to earn course credits and graduate from high school. The purposes of the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Nontraditional Education, Online Courses, Program Evaluation
Modarresi, Shahpar; Wade, Julie; Zhao, Huafang; Wolanin, Natalie – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2014
The MCPS Office of Shared Accountability conducted an evaluation of the "High School Plus" (HS+) program implemented in Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools (MCPS). HS+ is one of the intervention programs offered by MCPS to provide additional ways of earning high school credits for students who have failed courses required for…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Nontraditional Education, Program Evaluation, Intervention
Washington State Board of Education, 2011
In 2007, the State Board of Education conducted a study to determine what course credits students were "required" to take in order to graduate from high school. In 2008, the Board commissioned a transcript study by the BERC Group to determine what course credits students in the graduating class of 2008 were actually "taking".…
Descriptors: Course Selection (Students), Graduation, Credits, High School Seniors
Washington State Board of Education, 2011
In 2007, the State Board of Education conducted a study to determine what course credits students were "required" to take in order to graduate from high school. In 2008, the Board commissioned a transcript study by the BERC Group to determine what course credits students in the graduating class of 2008 were actually "taking".…
Descriptors: Course Selection (Students), Graduation, Graduation Requirements, Credits
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Lewis, Laurie; Gray, Lucinda – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
The 2015-16 survey "Programs and Services for High School English Learners" provides the first nationally representative data on this topic. This report is based on that survey and presents data on programs and services for high school English learners (ELs), including instructional approaches, newcomer programs, online or computer-based…
Descriptors: High School Students, English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction, Public Schools
Aliaga, Oscar A.; Kotamraju, Pradeep; Stone, James R., III – National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2012
This study describes a typology that allows us to explore and analyze the career and technical education (CTE) credit-taking experience of all high school students, not just those traditionally considered CTE (or vocational) students. We argue that this new typology provides a better framework for understanding CTE than the more traditional…
Descriptors: Career Education, Technical Education, Vocational Education, High School Students
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Queen, Barbara; Lewis, Laurie – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
This report provides national estimates about student enrollment in distance education courses in public school districts. The estimates presented in this report are based on a district survey about distance education courses offered by the district or by any of the schools in the district during the 12-month 2009-10 school year. For this survey,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Advanced Placement, Distance Education, Graduation Requirements
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