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Board offers new senior seminar as optional for 2026, will revisit requirement for 2027
Summary
After debate on phasing and PSEO conflicts, the board voted to offer a proposed senior seminar as an optional senior course for the coming year and directed staff to collect student feedback and revisit the idea of making it a graduation requirement for 2027.
The Houston Public School District board voted to offer a proposed senior seminar as an optional course for the class of 2026 and to consider making the course a graduation requirement for a later class after a trial period.
Principal Kaecilius presented the senior seminar as a first-semester, required-course concept intended to help seniors transition to college, career or military life by building professional resumes, practicing interviews and learning to complete financial aid forms such as the FAFSA. "The idea for this course is really for our students to transition into college, career, military," Kaecilius said during…
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