The San Diego Unified School District Board of Education voted Tuesday night to add computer proficiency as a graduation requirement at its high schools, including La Jolla High.
The board during its regular meeting reversed a previous action that removed computer proficiency as a graduation requirement, effective with the class of 2016. The requirement would be satisfied by taking computer classes and passing a test.
San Diego Unified is one of several large school districts that are toughening graduation standards to bring them into alignment with the so-called "A-G" eligibility requirements of the University of California and California State University systems.
The board asked staff to look into merging the computer-proficiency requirement with senior exhibitions, which they initially considered canceling. The exhibitions include projects, community service work, evidence of success throughout a student's school career and work samples.
Senior exhibitions are not required by the state to graduate and are not called for in University of California eligibility guidelines, officials said.
—City News Service
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