Seize the opportunity while you can because there is no better time than the present

Plans are in the works for future high school students of Los
Angeles to establish new graduation requirements beginning next
school year. The changes that the L.A. Board of Education wants to
make are regarding college prep courses that each graduating
student will be required to pass. As a future college student who
is about to enter high school in this upcoming year you need to be
aware of the importance of these changes. Overall required
completed courses to graduate will be lessened to balance out the
weight of the

college prep Los
Angeles
courses that will added to the
studentâs workload.

The superintendent believes that this will point high school
students toward better opportunities for college and a future
career. By requiring every student to complete the necessary
college preparation courses for high school graduation this will
also ensure that every student even has the opportunity to consider
attending a four-year public university. Being that these courses
are essential to the start of a proper college education and making
serious

college plans,
other academics will no longer be required so as to allow the
students to focus on these more important classes.

The main concern of putting these new policies into practice
is that the high school dropout rate will increase because the plan
puts expects too much and the pressure on students will be
overwhelming. This is subjective, and each individual school
district will have the authority to tailor the plan to its own
standards. On the other hand, firm supporters say that the bar
should be set even higher for graduating high school and students
should definitely be required to pass these important classes to
graduate and stand a fighting chance at attending a four-year state
college.

It may be a challenge getting students to comply with the new
requirements of having to pass two years of math after Algebra 1
(that would make it three required years of math total) as well as
two years of a foreign language which is actually not enforced
under the current policy of L.A. Unified. It only seems logical to
put these requirements into action so that students have a real
shot at getting into college after they graduate high school. The
new proposal will suggest reducing the amount of electives a
student needs to enroll in and drive the focus toward these core
academic classes to prepare students for the transition to pursuing
a college education.

Read more on this topic here:

L.A.
school board to vote on new graduation requirements