OSPI January Conference

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College Admissions, CTE, and Graduation
Requirements

• OSPI January Conference
• Seattle 2009
• Brian Jeffries, OSPI
• Graduation Policy Director

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College or Work Readiness?!!!

• Standards for What? The Economic Roots of K-16
  Reform, Carnevale and Desrochers, ETS, 2004
  http//www.learndoearn.org/For-Educators/Standards
  -for-What.pdf
• Ready for College and Ready for Work Same or
  Different?, Schmeiser, ACT, Inc., 2006
  http//www.act.org/research/policymakers/pdf/Readi
  nessBrief.pdf
• Improving the Odds Preparing Washington
  Students for Family-Wage Jobs, Vranek and De
  Barros, EFC, 2007 http//www.collegeworkreadyagen
  da.org/downloads/finalforweb_improvingthe_odds_rep
  ort_113007.pdf

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Baccalaureate Admission Requirements

• College Academic Distribution Requirements
• English 4 credits
• Math 3 credits
• Sr.-year math-based quantitative course 1
  credit
• Science - Lab 2 credits
• Social Science 3 credits
• Foreign Language 2 credits
• Arts 1 credit
• Total 15-16 credits
• Quantitative math-based course required in
  senior year does not require higher level math
  than current admissions policy
• One credit of algebra-based biology,
  chemistry, or physic required
• for college admission in 2010-11

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Revised Minimum Admission Standards

• Mathematics3 credits
• Ninth-grade students in 2008 and thereafter
  should begin working towards earning
• One credit each of algebra, I geometry and
  algebra II, or three credits of integrated math
  through integrated math III.
• One math-based quantitative credit during
  students senior year of high school.
• Note the above requirements do not mean a higher
  level of math than current admissions policies
  algebra II or integrated math III.

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Revised Minimum Admission Standards

• Options for meeting senior-year quantitative
  requirement include
• Algebra II or Integrated Math III in senior year.
• The required algebra-based science course in
  senior year.
• Statistics, applied math, another algebra-based
  science course or appropriate career and
  technical education courses that qualify as
  quantitative, math-based courses.
• Substitute Provision Students who successfully
  complete math through pre-calculus would meet the
  math requirements and be exempt from the
  senior-year math requirement, even if they
  complete pre-calculus before their fourth year of
  high school.

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Revised Minimum Admission Standards

• Science2 credits
• High school juniors in 2008 and thereafter must
  begin working towards earning two credits in
  laboratory sciences, including one credit of
  algebra-based biology, chemistry or physics.
• Work can commence on meeting this requirement
  prior to the junior year.
• The above requirement must be met for entry into
  a baccalaureate institutions beginning in 2010.

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Revised Minimum Admission Standards

• English4 credits
• High school ninth-grade students in 2008 should
  begin working towards earning four credits of
  English, including
• three credits of literature and composition
• one credit of elective English, such as creative
  writing and English as a second language.
• World Languages (2 credits) , Social Science (3
  credits), Arts (1 credit)
• No changes in admissions standards.

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The Transcript B Designation

• WAC 392-415-070 requires that standardized high
  school transcripts include a B designation for
  courses that meet or satisfy CADRs
• School district to determine which courses meet
  CADR guidelines
• Common High School Core Course Database has been
  eliminated

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CTE High School Course Equivalencies

• RCW 28A.230.097
• (1) Each high school or school district board of
  directors shall adopt course equivalencies for
  career and technical high school courses offered
  to students at the high school. A career and
  technical course equivalency may be for whole or
  partial credit. Each school district board of
  directors shall develop a course equivalency
  approval procedure.(2) Career and technical
  courses determined to be equivalent to academic
  core courses, in full or in part, by the high
  school or school district shall be accepted as
  meeting core requirements, including graduation
  requirements, if the courses are recorded on the
  student's transcript using the equivalent
  academic high school department designation and
  title. Full or partial credit shall be recorded
  as appropriate.

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CORE 24 Policy Framework

• The purpose of the diploma is to declare that a
  student is ready for success in postsecondary
  education, gainful employment, and citizenship,
  and is equipped with the skills to be a lifelong
  learner.  The diploma represents a balance
  between the personalized education needs of each
  student and societys needs, and reflects at its
  core the states basic education goals.  The
  diploma is a compact among students, parents,
  local school districts, the state and whatever
  institution or employer the graduate moves on
  toa compact that says the graduate has acquired
  a particular set of knowledge and skills.

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Third Math Credit

• The SBE adopted the new math credit rule to be
  effective as a graduation requirement for the
  Class of 2013
• The three credits consist of
• Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II or
  Integrated Math I, Integrated Math II, and
  Integrated Math III or
• An approved career and technical education (CTE)
  course that aligns with the standards may be
  taken to complete any of these credits
• The third credit may also be completed through
  election of an alternative math credit that leads
  to a specific career goal identified in the High
  School and Beyond Plan

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Current Requirements Disconnect?
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CORE 24 and College Admission Requirements
Alignment?
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Contact Information

• Brian Jeffries
• brian.jeffries_at_k12.wa.us