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Elizabeth City-Pasquotank board approves promotion-standard change to reduce duplicate English credit for college-pathway students
Summary
The board unanimously approved a revision to high-school promotion standards allowing students in community-college pathways to be promoted without taking a duplicate English III course if they pass college English 111 and 112 and enroll in English 231, freeing a schedule block for CTE or other courses.
The Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools Board of Education unanimously approved a revision to local promotion standards at its Feb. 24 meeting that gives students in the Career and College Promise (CCP) pathway an alternative to taking duplicate English credits.
Superintendent Parker told the board the proposal keeps English III as a promotion standard but adds an option for students who complete college-level English prerequisites. Under the new option, a student who passes English 111 and 112 at the community college level and enrolls in English 231 (college English) can be promoted to senior year without also taking the district's English III course, removing what Parker described as “duplication of credits.”
The change was framed as a scheduling and opportunity adjustment: it reduces the four-course burden that some CCP students previously faced to three courses, creating an open block that students could use for career-and-technical-education classes, band, advanced physical education or other electives. Parker said the intent is to encourage college-course enrollment and to ‘‘maximize our time with kids’’ by avoiding repeated coursework.
Board members moved and seconded the item and recorded a unanimous vote to adopt the revision. The motion does not change the state minimum diploma requirement; the superintendent emphasized the revision affects local promotion criteria and the pathways by which students are advanced during high school.
Next steps include updating the district’s written promotion policies and communicating the new option to counselors, high-school principals and families so that students pursuing the CCP pathway understand scheduling and promotion implications.
The board adjourned after the vote.
