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Providers ask House Education Committee to fix diploma gap from program transition
Summary
House Education Committee members heard Jan. 22 from adult education providers who asked lawmakers to add temporary language to the state’s Budget Adjustment Act to allow about 100 students caught in a program transition to receive high school diplomas.
House Education Committee members heard Jan. 22 from adult education providers who asked lawmakers to add temporary language to the state’s Budget Adjustment Act to allow about 100 students caught in a program transition to receive high school diplomas.
The request came from Michelle Post, executive director of Northeast Freedom Learning Services, and Bridal Kravitz, director of outreach and workforce development at Central Vermont Adult Education. They said a short sunset period for the state’s former high school completion program, combined with a delayed rollout of the new Adult Diploma Program (ADP), left a cohort of students who had signed completion plans but have not yet received diplomas.
The providers described two parts to the committee’s BAA decision: a one-time financial adjustment to pay providers for higher-than-estimated student counts in fiscal 2024, and a proposed ‘‘notwithstanding’’…
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