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Board considers lowering graduation-credit floor to 23, adding 0.5-credit financial literacy requirement
Summary
The superintendent proposed reducing the district graduation-credit floor from 26 to 23 and making a 0.5-credit financial-literacy course required for incoming ninth graders, while retaining a strengthened Global Community Citizenship requirement; the board opened an additional public-comment period before a January final vote.
The Anne Arundel County Board of Education debated proposed changes to graduation requirements on Dec. 17 that would reduce the district's required-credit floor and add financial literacy as a required half-credit.
Superintendent Dr. Bedell said the district will change administrative regulations to lower the overall number of required credits from 26 to 23 (a "floor") and add a required 0.5-credit financial-literacy course beginning with next year's ninth graders. He said the Global Community Citizenship (GCC) course would remain a required…
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