are now going to have to provide a thumbprint in order to help authenticate who they are. The state is doing this to cut down on cheating.

out on restoring value to the high school diploma. I can agree with a lot of what they people behind this report have to say and is a great report to read.

In the report they say that states should not just throw out more higher level classes because it just throws out breadth, not depth. Under my plan I do my best to fix breadth by doing stuff like forcing all college level math classes to be 2-periods in length.

The report gets into “standards” and “rigor.” The report defines many of them. If a state has low standards for high school students, you will have low rigor by the students in general. With some national set standards we can fix that.

The report gets into exit exams which I hate and they do too. They say it does not improve standards and included to many lower grade level questions in them.

My educational plan I created does what I think is best to meet the needs of a 21st century job market that improves the whole educational system and not just the high school diploma.

to allow graduates who go into careers public school teacher or social worker, or work for any nonprofit money to help pay back college loan debt. The article states they are going to spend
$500,000 a year on the program.

Great start, but 500 grand a year is very small and needs a massive increase.

on a preschool program that uses peers to teach conflict resolution.

is finally seeing a change after six years in the amount of students the school district has. The school district saw only a drop of 200 students this year compared with previous years above 1,000 and the school district has seen a record amount of preschool kids.

on school report cards. The article states that around 20% got better scores and around 20% got lower scores. That is biggest change ever for the report.