diploma

It looks like Rep. Joel SHELTROWN (D-West Branch) would need to get enough votes to override a veto if he hopes to see his bill, HB 5943, get enacted.

HB 5943 would create a dual diploma system for "students who don't fit the mold for going on to college".

"We're not in support of lowering standards," Granholm Press Secretary Liz BOYD told MIRS today. "We fought for more a rigorous curriculum and our support for that continues."

FOR BACK GROUND: http://mymassp.com/content/dual_diploma_plan_coming_being_introduced_any...

The attached is a report from Achieve, Inc.

This morning a principal was approached by a community member and asked if it was true her father, who served in WWII, qualified for a high school diploma. The principal called MASSP and said, this does sound familiar but what does the law say?

Here it is.

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4613
An act to authorize the board of a school district to award high school diplomas to World War II veterans and Korean conflict veterans under certain circumstances; and to prescribe duties and responsibilities of certain state officers and officials