25% of Seattle 10th-graders get held-back notice

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports:

Nearly one in four Seattle Public Schools sophomores is missing required credits and has been reclassified as a freshman, potentially delaying graduation.

The move, effective this semester, was part of a package of changes the district announced in October to help better prepare high school students to pass the Washington Assessment of Student Learning and graduate.

Under district policy, high school students have to complete five credits a year to advance to the next grade. A total of 827 students who had been classified as sophomores this fall but had not earned enough credits were notified last month that they would be reclassified as freshmen.

Great moments in Blue America.