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The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is committed to expanding opportunities for students to meet the graduation requirements in § 118.33 Stats. and Chapter PI 18, the High School Graduation Standards. Chapter PI 18.02 defines “equivalent graduation policy” as “a board policy which meets the credit requirements specified (§ 118.33 Stats.) for each subject area, but which permits selected equivalent courses as long as such courses contain the time allotment and substantially the same objectives to develop the knowledge, concepts, and skills of the course for which an equivalent is proposed.”
Procedure
1. Form a committee of district personnel that includes both agriculture and science educators. Review the knowledge and skills of the agriculture course the district is seeking equivalency for and compare this to the knowledge and skills identified in the district science curriculum or program. To assist with this process, DPI has completed a crosswalk2 document between Wisconsin’s Model Academic Standards for Agriculture Education and Wisconsin’s Model Academic Standards for Science. This crosswalk is to be completed during the review process. DPI has several best practice examples available for agriculture courses that are representative of an equivalent agriculture course. Please refer to http://dpi.wi.gov/cte/agprogram.html to find those examples.
2. Request school board approval for the equivalency course.
3. Submit all documentation to DPI using Form PI 1803 - AG. This documentation is to include dates and meeting times, district personnel in attendance, documentation of course content with instructional time allocation specified, alignment to the crosswalk from DPI, and documentation of course approval by the district’s school board, including the date of board acceptance of the equivalent course.
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