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When DeLorenzo became the district's top official, he said, the school system moved away from a system that awarded students credit primarily for spending a designated amount of time in class."Kids graduate when they're 18, whether they're ready or not," he said.
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Instead, students needed to demonstrate they had mastered class materials before they could move onto the next level. That shift in habit transformed the Anchorage-based Chugach School District, DeLorenzo said.
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"For the first time, students knew what they had to learn and teachers knew what they had to teach," a rare occurrence in American schools, he said.
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