The Idaho Department of Education will conduct a series of regional outreach meetings this month in an effort to bring educational stakeholders up to speed on proposed changes to the state’s graduation requirements.
Meetings will be held in all six regions with the first four occurring next week. Stakeholders will hear from the Idaho Department of Education on the addition of digital literacy as a core requirement, including the rationale for its inclusion and what meeting the requirement might look like for districts and charters. Department staff will also discuss updating the existing senior project to the new Future Readiness Project that would include an experiential component in which a student demonstrates the acquisition of the State Board of Education-adopted Idaho College and Career Competencies.
If approved by the State Board of Education and the Idaho Legislature, the changes would represent the first update to Idaho’s graduation requirements since 2017. The state establishes minimum academic and elective credit requirements, allowing local education agencies to set standards above the minimum.
The north central Idaho meeting will be held Wednesday, October 16 from 5:30 – 7 p.m. at the DeAtley Career Technical Education Center in Lewiston.
