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A Policy Analysis Of Nevada's Middle School Retention Legislation, Julie Ann Abeyta
A Policy Analysis Of Nevada's Middle School Retention Legislation, Julie Ann Abeyta
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
In 1997, the Nevada State Legislature passed Assembly Bill 376 permitting the State Board of Education to adopt credit requirements that students must meet prior to being promoted from eighth grade to high school. A resulting State Board of Education regulation requires that a student earn one-and-one-half credits in language and one-and-one-half credits in mathematics during seventh and eighth grades to merit promotion to high school; While much attention has been given to the issue of retention and social promotion in large urban school districts such as Chicago and New York City, little investigation has been directed to smaller, rural …