AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Maine’s top education official says public school districts can now take up to two extra years to implement new proficiency-based graduation requirements if they need the time.
Education Commissioner Jim Rier spelled out six ways to apply for extensions in a letter Wednesday to superintendents.
Under the new system, created by a 2012 Maine law, public schools would ultimately graduate students based on their mastery of eight subject areas - including English, math and science - not just their completion of core credits. The new standards were scheduled to apply starting with this fall’s freshman class.
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The Portland Press Herald (https://bit.ly/1oN4LbO ) reports that Rier wrote the two-year extension option was implemented after he heard from education stakeholders concerned about “the complexity of developing quality proficiency-based learning systems.”
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Information from: Portland Press Herald, https://www.pressherald.com
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