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State Board chair proposes cutting world-language graduation requirement to one credit; members debate trade-offs
Summary
Chair Bob Eby proposed reducing the statewide world-language graduation requirement from two credits to one and shifting one credit into electives to expand student choice; board members raised concerns about college preparation, staffing and cultural exposure and asked for refined waiver/substitution language before a February vote.
State Board of Education Chair Bob Eby presented a revised graduation-requirements proposal that would change the current rule requiring two credits of the same world language to a single required credit while keeping the 22-credit graduation total intact.
Eby said the change would increase elective flexibility (four elective credits rather than three), make world language an available "focused program of study," and standardize or simplify the waiver/substitution process. He framed the proposal as preserving access for students who want language study while enabling…
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