CTC Students to Meet Merit Requirements
After a year-long process, completed by technical and academic teachers along with other professionals from across the state, the Muskegon Area Career Tech Center (CTC) has proposed academic curriculum alignments for granting English or Math credit to CTC students. This change will provide students more flexibility to attend the CTC and still meet credit requirements.
The Michigan Merit Curriculum requires students who entered the 8th grade in 2006 to obtain a minimum of 16 credits for graduation. These credit requirements include the following: 4 credits – English/Language Arts, 4 credits – Mathematics, 3 credits – Science, 3 credits – Social Studies, 2 credits – World Language,1 credit each – Physical Education; Visual, Performing and Applied Arts; and an online learning experience.
In order for students to receive high school credit for CTC coursework, the academic curriculum alignments must first be approved by local school districts. Information outlining these alignments was mailed out to local curriculum directors the first week of January. So far, the first districts to approve the alignments are Whitehall, Montague, Orchard View, and Holton. This will allow these students already enrolled in CTC classes the opportunity for high school credit for the courses they are completing this year. Other schools are expected to follow suit in the months to come.
Auto Body and Cosmetology classes are being reviewed for a possible Science credit.
