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Deming Public School Officials Stand by Graduation Information

11/1/2012

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Superintendent Harvielee Moore
(Deming) – Deming School officials are standing by the information disseminated – or not  disseminated – to Deming High seniors before the October retakes of the Standard  Based Assessment

Superintendent  Harvielee Moore said she believed all information received by the district had  been adequately communicated to students – although she admitted that she was  not personally aware of exactly what seniors were told about state-mandated  graduation requirements for the class of 2013.   Moore, and Assessment  and Accountability Director Terri Trejo, both pointed to a memo from State  Education Secretary-designate Hanna Skandera to school superintendents dated  August 31st which said students must “exhaust all opportunities to  show competency on the SBA” before alternative demonstrations of competency can  be considered.

But the same memo lists  alternative demonstrations of competency as simply passing the courses required  for graduation.

So this year’s seniors  who do not pass the SBA with a score of 73 or better will still receive a  diploma as long as they pass Biology or Chemistry, Algebra II, Language Arts III  and U.S. History, along with other credit requirements.

Moore said the  information coming from the  state department of education is constantly changing  and often confusing, but that she and her administration were acting in the best  interests of the students by telling them that the safest path to a diploma was  to do their best
on the retakes.

Scores achieved on the  retakes will not be known until next month. And to further confuse  parents, the graduation requirements for the class of 2014 include passing the  SBA or passing
end-of-course exams for the four targeted classes – even if  students took the classes as a freshman or sophomore.

 And the class of 2015  could have an entirely different set of state-created graduation requirements  since those students will come under the new Common Core Standards  curriculum.


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