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Committee approves amended college and career readiness certificate standards, forwards draft to full board
Summary
The Utah State Board of Education Standards and Assessment Committee approved draft R277921 — the College and Career Readiness Certificate program standards — on first reading with amendments and forwarded it to the full board for second and final reading.
The Standards and Assessment Committee voted to approve draft R277921, the College and Career Readiness Certificate program standards, on first reading as amended and forwarded the document to the full Utah State Board of Education for second and final reading.
Committee members approved several substantive amendments during discussion, including replacing language labeled “citizenship” with “character,” preserving language about “access” alongside “opportunity,” and expanding partnerships named in a standard to explicitly include technical colleges and concurrent enrollment. Committee members debated whether changing the term “access” to “opportunity” would create misalignment with board rule language used in other materials; ultimately the committee left language that maintains continuity with current board terminology.
The committee discussed standard 9’s wording on partnerships and settled on phrasing that increases collaboration by “local schools and LEA partners with industry partners, higher education, technical colleges, concurrent enrollment, career and technical education, work-based learning and apprenticeships” to help students meet labor-market demands. Members also debated requirements for disaggregated data collection and whether specific data elements should be required at the school level.
The motion to approve draft R277921 as amended on first reading passed unanimously and the committee forwarded the draft to the full board for consideration on second and final reading. The committee record shows the motion was made and seconded at the meeting; the meeting transcript does not identify a single named mover for the final motion on the record.
Committee discussion and amendments will be captured in the version forwarded to the board. The committee indicated some motions/amendments were withdrawn during the meeting and that a final, consolidated draft will accompany the item to the board so members there can review the amended language in context.
Looking forward, the board will consider the amended draft on its next docket; staff said the committee’s changes were intended to preserve alignment between program standards and related board rules and local implementation practices.
