(The Center Square) – An Arizona lawmaker is seeking to revise the state’s high school graduation requirements in hopes to beef up technical education.
Sen. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, is pitching that students in their junior or senior years of high school take a “statewide assessment” to demonstrate knowledge related to career and technical education.
However, exceptions to the measure would be granted for those who pass a test administered for a career and technical education program cleared by the Arizona Department of Education or “obtains an industry certification” that is cleared by the state government…