Georgetown ISD students who began ninth grade before the 2011-12 school year and have been unable to officially graduate due to performance on state exams have a new path toward getting their diploma.
What you need to know
On Jan. 16, GISD trustees passed a measure providing alternate graduation standards for some students who were unable to graduate from the district due to performance on state exams, such as the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness or Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, but met all other requirements enforced when they entered high school.
In district documents accompanying the measure, district staff indicate that the change was to be included in a cluster of policy updates in 2018, but was not included in the measure trustees voted on at that time. These documents state the district has no record of why this policy was not included in the update.
