Key Acceleration Considerations: Policy
States and communities working to build successful programs that accelerate students’ progress toward a postsecondary credential should review policies to understand whether they enable or inhibit the building and scaling of programs. Specific attention should be paid to the downstream effects of policy and regulation on students of color, students from low-income families, and students from other underrepresented backgrounds.
Accelerated pathways to credential models create additional challenges beyond those present with dual credit and may require revisions to state accountability and graduation requirements policies, postsecondary credit transfer and articulation policies, and course mapping and career pathways.
Education Strategy Group developed this one-pager of key policy conditions for acceleration for the initial Accelerate ED cohort in 2023.
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