I have completed all of the courses required for high school graduation but the school says I must complete a senior project in order to graduate. Is this a state requirement for graduation? The California Education Code currently does not require that students complete a senior project.
However, in California, local school districts have the authority and responsibility for determining graduation requirements. Therefore, local school districts do have the authority to require students to complete a senior project in order to receive a high school diploma. The high school counselor at my child's school has told my child that he or she does not have enough credits to graduate.
What are my options for getting this situation resolved? All parents and guardians have the right to be fully informed about their children's academic progress toward graduation. As a parent or guardian, you should schedule a conference with the counselor. If the issue cannot be resolved to your satisfaction at this level, then make an appointment with the school administrator, usually the principal, in charge.
If you still have concerns after this meeting, your next option is to contact the school district office and speak with the administrators, including the superintendent, in charge of the academic program.
If the administrators indicate that it is local district policy that sets the requirements, then you may appeal to your local school board. At this point, you should request the Uniform Complaint Procedures Updated Feb and maintain written records of your efforts to resolve your issues. Local school boards are citizen boards that have primary authority to set the policies of the school district. If they indicate that the California Education Code specifies the requirements, ask for the specific code section to which they are referring.
For more information on the Education Code, see California Law. If a student with disabilities is unable to meet all state and local graduation requirements, can they be recognized for their efforts? The EC allows a district to award certificates or documents of achievement or completion to students with IEPs who are unable to meet all state and local graduation requirements. I participate in a competitive sport that is not directly associated with my high school. Can I use my time practicing and participating in this sport to satisfy the physical education graduation requirement?
The authority to determine course equivalencies resides with the local school districts. Because California public schools are seeking to align their physical education programs with the Physical Education Framework for California Public Schools , the use of outside-of-school sports as equivalent credit is discouraged. How can I find out about graduation requirements in other states? The National Center on Educational Outcomes NCEO provides online information on state graduation requirements as well as state policy information about assessments, special accommodations, alternate assessments, participation, reporting, and standards.
How can I find out what the California high school graduation requirements were in a specific year? Please request this information from your local library or contact the State Library at: Early High School Completion I would like to complete high school early. How can I do that? First of all, talk with your high school counselor about your interest in completing high school early.
The local school district's graduation requirements must be completed if you are to receive a high school diploma. While most high schools are organized to accommodate a standard four-year schedule to graduation, some California public high schools offer options for accelerated learning plans. To be eligible to enroll directly at a University of California UC or a California State University CSU campus, the required high school courses for freshman admission are much more extensive and rigorous than the state's minimum graduation requirements.
High school juniors and seniors, with the permission of their parents and schools and subject to certain conditions, can enroll as special part-time students at community colleges and four-year colleges and universities some at no cost to begin their college education while still enrolled in high school and completing their high school diploma.
For additional information about attending college, please see CaliforniaColleges. There are also other options for completing high school early: California High School Proficiency Exam CHSPE : A person may take the CHSPE if he or she is at least 16 years old, or he or she has been enrolled in the tenth grade for one academic year or longer, or he or she will complete one academic year of enrollment in the tenth grade at the end of the semester during which the CHSPE regular administration i.
While the UC and CSU recognize the CHSPE as the equivalent of a high school diploma, to be eligible for admission, applicants must also have successfully completed the full set of required high school course requirements and standardized admission tests.
See CaliforniaColleges. The GED test covers reading, writing, math, science, and social studies. However, in the case of the GED, such use of the test results is prohibited. What if I am missing a few units or did not complete all of my units when I was in high school? Contact your local adult school. Adult education is a public education program for all adults.
Students who join Job Corps , a federal program, are paid a monthly allowance. Job Corps helps you learn a trade at the same time you are getting a high school diploma or GED.
It also helps its graduates find jobs. This is a competitive program, and admission is not guaranteed. You must be a U. Operators who speak English and Spanish are available 24 hours a day. An operator will provide you with information about the program, refer you to the admissions counselor closest to your home, and mail you an information packet. You also learn life skills and work hard doing fire protection, emergency response or environmental conservation such as building trails, planting trees or working in a salmon fishery.
The CCC pays minimum wage and offers a grant for further education after you successfully complete the program. Some programs provide housing or a chance to travel to another country. In addition, the state runs a Youth Employment Opportunity Program YEOP for to year-olds that offers peer advising, referrals to workshops and job placement assistance. The 74 state-funded regional occupational centers and programs ROCPs offer career technical classes — for example, firefighting, carpentry, graphic arts, auto mechanics or health-related careers — to high school students and adults.
No diploma or equivalent is required to take the courses, though high school students have priority for enrollment. Each center offers its own set of programs, and many of these centers also offer GED courses. Go to the ROCP website to find a program near you, or ask your guidance counselor or a teacher. In addition, there are apprenticeships, which offer on-the-job training in the skilled trades so you can learn to be, for example, a carpenter or electrician.
Some apprenticeships require a high school diploma or equivalent, but some do not. To find out more about the minimum requirements for a variety of apprenticeships, check out the California Department of Industrial Relations website. You will need a diploma to go to a four-year college, including public universities like the California State University or the University of California. However, in California, you only need to be 18 years or older to attend a community college.
A high school diploma is not required, though you may have to take remedial courses offered by the college and some majors, such as engineering, may require a GED before you can transfer to a four-year university. The requirements vary by college. Besides preparing students to be able to transfer to four-year universities, community colleges also provide programs that prepare you for a specific occupation, such as firefighting, carpentry, auto mechanics, graphic arts and nursing.
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Click here for EdSource's Comments Policy. I dropped out from school when I was 18 ears old and like to get my high school diploma again. How can i get it? I graduated high school in Is there anyway now with it being over 10 years later, I can get my diploma? I did have all my credits and more to end with.
Can you be given life credits at 40 years young to achieve your diploma? I need two English credits as life credits to get my diploma. I dropped out of school when I was 15th years old! I had some college! I am 70 yrs old and would like my high school diploma! How can I take free high school credits? In the meantime, she is locked into a poor online education system through her local high school.
But as of this week, it appears those tests are not available to her either, as they been pushed back to She is desperate to move on to college, but the CA education system is preventing her from proving … Read More. I suspect there are hundreds of ambitious high school seniors that are being lost in CA loop hole — where they are no longer being academically challenged for university and have lost their paths to exit early with honors.
Hi, I was kicked out of school my softmore year. What can I do to get my high school diploma? Have you ever considered just saying you do and worry about it if they ask to see it? Sent with gentle effect. First, this is a complete lie. My wife has her doctorate in physical therapy; together we make almost , Hi Leah, Keep the faith, and your chin up.
Stay the course and encouraged and never allow anyone to make you feel invisible or devalued. Like you, I also had learning differences which at the time weren't addressed. My words may sound harsh and even bitter, but I want to be real with you. How dare someone, anyone tell you that even with vocational training that you must have a piece of paper that dates back … Read More.
Keep the faith, and your chin up. I am not ashamed nor should you be; we did the best we knew to do, or could do at the time. At some point she married, raised children and later sadly went through a devastating divorce.
So much for the old HS diploma…not even a 4 year college degree gets you in the door anymore. The institutionalized hypocrisy that is the Educational system is flat-out flawed. Sadly, what was previously considered entry level jobs are now requiring GED or high school.
I can give you several answers and all of them would be intellectually intolerant to those who enjoy being politically correct. Heavy set? The inconvenience of your skin color all factor in. Today people with college degrees are struggling to find work and the impersonal process puts and pits them up against other applicants. Degrees saturate the workplace and environment like wet TP and yet often people are doing work and jobs that have nothing to do with their studies or the field they intended to work in.
To say nothing of how technology has completely taken over the application process — how do any of us stand a chance. I want to clear up some confusion in the article about eligibility for High School Proficiency Exams.
At least in California, you need to be age 16 or have completed the 10th grade to sit for the California High School Proficiency Exam. This means that if you are 16 years old you can take the exam, but if you are a younger child or teen who has completed 10th grade coursework you can also take … Read More.
This means that if you are 16 years old you can take the exam, but if you are a younger child or teen who has completed 10th grade coursework you can also take the CHSPE. In California there are many child actors who take the CHSPE so they can get their work permit before they turn 18 years old. There are also many children who home schooled at an accelerated pace who can and do take a pass the CHSPE very young and then go on to college. I am so desperate and reside in Thousand Palms, CA.
The Occupational Course of Study is available for those students with disabilities who are specifically identified for the program and has adapted course requirements and the same credit requirements as FRC. Although the state requires a designated number of courses and credits for students to graduate high school, local school districts and other public school units may require additional courses and credits to graduate.
NOTE: It is strongly recommended that these students take World History in the first year of their high school Social Studies course sequence due to the nature of the adoption of the new Social Studies Standard Course of Study effective in Economics and Personal Finance is strongly recommended to be offered later in the student's high school career.
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