Certificate of Mastery should be at 11 th grade level. One size doesn't fit all. Local districts need flexibility in graduation requirements, keeping in mind world class standards. Overhaul of assessment needs to change. Essential learnings should be assessed, not all necessary state performance.
Benchmarks are there.
We should align our curriculum now and be working toward them. A lot on plate with teacher's. State needs to take the lead. Arts, health, fitness. Arts may not be state, essentially rather local.