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Board revisits graduation requirements; staff proposes requiring financial literacy and health course completion
Summary
District staff proposed that the board require successful completion of a personal financial literacy course and the Healthy Choices course for graduation to meet new Colorado statutory standards; the board asked for school-level follow-up before voting.
At the Nov. 5 meeting, district staff asked the board to revise District Policy 6340 to address three statutory changes in Colorado law: a continuing requirement for U.S. and Colorado history/civics instruction, a relatively new mandate to teach Holocaust and genocide standards, and a state requirement to incorporate personal financial literacy standards into a required course for high school graduation.
Staff presented two approaches: Option 1 would require students to successfully complete (pass) a…
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