Some Kansas school districts are considering lowering local graduation to the bare state minimum. Those changes would come after the state order shutting down all school buildings in the state for the rest of the academic year, a move brought on by the spread of coronavirus.
In Kansas, students need 21 credits to graduate.
Kansas Board of Education Chairwoman Kathy Busch says, for now, the state isn’t looking at lowering its requirements and trusts teachers will do their best.
“They are going to do everything they can to reach out to as many students as they can and try to get all of them to not only work on graduation credits but to work on the learning they need to do these last several weeks,” Busch said.
She says many at-risk students working to make up credits for graduation were already doing online coursework and that might minimize the impact of the changes.