NEA seeks delay of proficiency-based learning mandate

The president of the Vermont National Education Association has asked lawmakers to consider pushing back the deadline for implementing proficiency-based graduation requirements in the state’s high schools to 2022.

Proficiency-based learning asks that student progress be assessed on the skills they can show they have, not seat-time in a classroom.

The state’s Education Quality Standards, which were adopted by the State Board of Education, require that Vermont students graduate based on demonstrated “proficiencies” by 2020.

The mandate has transformed the way educators teach as well as the report cards and transcripts students take home. But the shift has run into controversy in many communities, and in Maine, once considered a trailblazer in proficiency-based reforms, lawmakers recently scrapped the state’s requirement that schools move to the new system.

Read more at VTDigger.org (VT-NEA seeks delay of proficiency-based learning mandate)