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At its March 11 meeting, the State Board of Education (SBE) adopted emergency rules that allow school districts to waive certain graduation requirements for individual students due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. These emergency rules apply immediately to the graduating Class of 2021.

The state Legislature recently approved a law (EHB 1121) that provides SBE the authority to create an Emergency Waiver Program for high school graduation. After a school district has tried all appropriate options to help a student meet credit and pathway graduation requirements, and determined that th...