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Jordan School District narrows options for implementing state’s new social‑studies graduation requirement; asks staff for detailed plans
Summary
After hours of discussion the Jordan School District board eliminated raising district graduation requirements and asked staff to return with options — chiefly to keep social‑studies changes inside the content area or shift half a credit from electives — before voting on a formal policy change.
The Jordan School District Board of Education spent the bulk of its April 28 meeting debating how to implement recent state changes that make the American Constitutional Government/civics requirement a full‑year class.
Superintendent Dr. Anthony Godfrey said the Legislature’s changes (cited in the presentation as HB 312 and related bills) require boards to determine local graduation expectations and how to fit a new full‑year civics class into existing schedules. "Because the state changed graduation requirements then we need to decide how we want to implement those," Dr. Godfrey said, explaining the board has authority to set district requirements above the state minimum.
The board heard three staff‑framed options: increase Jordan’s social‑studies requirement to 4.0 credits (raising district expectations above the current 3.5), keep the district total at 3.5 but convert one existing year‑long social‑studies course to a semester (.5) while still offering the…
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