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Proficiency-Based High School Diploma Systems In Maine: Implications For Special Education And Career Technical Education Programming And Student Populations, Erika K. Stump, Amy F. Johnson, Cathy Jacobs

Maine Education Policy Research Institute

Document review and interviews were conducted with college admissions' personnel to gather data regarding alignment of proficiency-based diploma systems and college eligibility and entry requirements. In addition, leaders and representative personnel from and Maine businesses and the U.S. military were interviewed to identify postsecondary career entry requirements and attributes of high quality workers. Another area of inquiry in this phase of the study included analysis of data from interviews with leaders and educators in Special Education to examine the perceived challenges, benefits and impacts of this diploma policy on students with identified disabilities and special education programming provided by Maine's …