- April 17, 2024
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The Flagler County School District has revised its student progression plan, including an accelerated plan that allows students who meet basic requirements to graduate within three years instead of four.
Under a revised plan presented at a School Board meeting Tuesday night, any student who earns 18 credit hours, has a grade point average of at least 2.0 and meets Florida’s new high school diploma requirements, without the physical education class and only three elective credits, will receive a diploma.
The new policy scraps directives that students choose a focus in either college preparation or career and technical education and complete their electives only through those classes.
“It used to be two options: an 18-credit college-bound option and an 18-credit industry-bound option,” Director of High School and Virtual Curriculum Instruction Diane Dyer said at a School Board meeting Tuesday night. “All that has been repealed.”
The change doesn’t affect students who already enrolled in one of the track options before July of this year. For them, all of the requirements will remain the same as long as they are enrolled in the program.
The revised student progression plan also updates language concerning state academic standards, adding references to the Common Core State Standards alongside the Sunshine State Standards, and adds detail to a section spelling out requirements for the Credit Acceleration Program, which lets students test out of certain core subjects that require statewide end-of-year assessments.
Students can test out of Algebra I, Algebra II, geometry, U.S. history or biology, according to the progression plan, and can take the statewide end-of-year exams with students enrolled in those classes.
School Board members voted unanimously to approve the new progression plan, on the condition that district staff review the revised accelerated graduation program's requirements to ensure they are compatible with educational requirements for military enlistment.
