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Board approves high‑school credit changes to increase CTE and arts flexibility
Summary
The board approved changes to graduation requirements to allow greater use of career-technical and visual/performing arts coursework to meet state-aligned credit requirements and to add a half-credit of financial literacy for the Class of 2028.
The Wayne-Westland Community School District board unanimously approved a set of high-school credit modifications intended to give students more flexibility in meeting Michigan Merit Curriculum requirements.
Administrators told trustees the changes do not reduce the total credit requirement (22 credits) but alter how some credits may be earned. The board approved allowing career and technical education courses at the William D. Ford Career Technical Center and specified visual, performing and applied arts (VPAA) virtual…
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