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Board weighs delaying North Bend diploma and honors criteria amid assessment, scheduling concerns
Summary
Staff warned that current proposal linking the local North Bend diploma and honors designation to state assessment or work-sample requirements would render a large share of juniors ineligible; board members asked for clearer alternative-track language, student notification plans and more time for implementation.
District staff presented data showing many juniors would not meet the proposed North Bend diploma’s "essential skills" testing or work-sample requirements under the current policy draft.
"If you look at math, 77 percent of our juniors last year did not meet or exceed the OSAS math test as far as the requirements," an instructional staff member said, noting that under the current language a large share of…
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