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State Board receives draft KISA graduation standards; department to evaluate outcomes for accreditation starting 2026-27
Summary
The State Board received a draft of proposed KISA graduation-outcome standards, which would be used in accreditation decisions beginning with the 2026-27 evaluation cycle. The department proposed a three-tier standard (Exceeds, Meets, Identified Need) based on a five-year cohort graduation calculation and a rate-of-change metric.
TOPEKA '1 The Kansas State Board of Education on July 8 received a first draft of proposed Kansas Instructional System for Accreditation (KISA) graduation-outcome standards that Kansas Department of Education staff plan to use in future accreditation evaluations.
Under the proposal presented to the board, KSDE would evaluate a system's graduation performance based on a five-year KISA graduation rate (the number of graduates across the five most recent classes divided by the sum of the corresponding four-year graduation cohorts). The department also proposed a rate-of-change metric comparing the most recent five-year rate to the previous five-year rate. The combination is intended to measure current outcomes and direction of change.
KSDE staff proposed…
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