Idaho plan to toughen high school standards gets preliminary OK

Proposal could cost $17 million additional funds
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A plan to toughen Idaho high schools in hopes of creating better-educated students won easy preliminary approval by the State Board of Education on Thursday.

Ed Board members want high school kids to take more math and science, complete a senior project and devote more than half of their electives to career development.

Idaho middle school students also should make a C average in math, science, social studies and language arts before entering high school, the board said.

If changes are approved, most would affect the graduating class of 2012, this year’s sixth graders. Ultimately, the plan could impact more than half the state’s quarter of a million public school students, mostly those in sixth through 12th grades.

Bill Roberts
The Idaho Statesman

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