JCSD Policy

A Certificate of Initial Mastery (CIM) will be awarded to students who meet or exceed all grade 10 state performance standards in the academic content areas of English, mathematics, science and social science, or other areas as determined by ODE, and additional local district CIM requirements, if any, as defined by the district in Board policy.

The district shall ensure that all students have the opportunity to demonstrate a level of proficiency in a second language, the arts and physical education. Students who fail to meet either the state performance standards in the academic content standard areas or the district standards in a second language, the arts or physical education, or who exceed all of the standards at any benchmark level, will be offered additional services or alternative public educational options. An alternative certificate specifying benchmarks and standards achieved will be awarded to students who, having received appropriate additional services and for whom alternative learning options were made available, do not meet the standards required for the CIM.

The district shall adopt criteria for granting individual students a waiver of the second language and music requirements.

The superintendent will develop administrative regulations as needed to implement this policy.

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