Buried in the NJ today is a piece about dropout rates, and at the bottom of that is a note about the state board of education pushing off the implementation of one of the new graduation requirements, that all students must have two years of foreign language to graduate by 2013.
That will now be by 2015, and it is being blamed on not being able to find teachers to fill those spots. Basically they are relegating two more years of high school graduates to standards that don’t meet college entrance requirements for any decent school because they do not want to find ways to find those teachers. Its easier for Sec. Woodruff to pass the buck then to find ways to meet the needs of students.