State Investigating HISD Over Too Many Graduation Waivers

Too many kids are graduating from Houston ISD schools not because they passed their end of course exams, but because a school committee waved them on – so much so that the state is investigating.

Students who have failed no more than two end of course exams can be assessed through a school-based Individual Graduation Committee. This review looks at a student’s grades and other factors and can issue a waiver that allows the student to graduate.“We, the district, over a number of years, have abused that exemption which is supposed to be for exceptional cases and we make it part of the graduation requirement.

“We have 20 high schools that have over 10 percent of their students graduating with an IGC. That is low level rigor. That is not good for kids. Some of those schools are in the 30 percent range. I think the top school is 40 percent,” Miles said.

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