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Commission seeks revisions to accountability rules and to drop U.S. History EOC as graduation requirement
Summary
The commission voted to request State Board rulemaking to revise the Mississippi Public School Accountability Standards (Miss. Admin. Code 7‑24) and to eliminate the U.S. History end‑of‑course assessment as a graduation requirement beginning with the 2025–26 school year.
The Commission on School Accreditation on Tuesday voted to ask the State Board of Education to begin the Administrative Procedures Act rulemaking process to revise the Mississippi Public School Accountability Standards (Miss. Admin. Code 7‑24) and to eliminate the U.S. History end‑of‑course (EOC) assessment as a graduation requirement beginning in the 2025–26 school year.
Staff presenters said the set of changes operationalizes previously announced revisions to the consolidated state plan and adds a new high‑school "readiness" indicator. "These changes will go into effect the next academic year," Allen Burrow told commissioners, noting the updates include participation‑rate language, growth calculations, and the inclusion of the new readiness indicator in high schools.
Burrow said the changes also…
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