The Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Act takes a student-centered and competency-based approach to create four strategies to help students prepare for postsecondary and career opportunities: offering a Postsecondary and Career Expectations framework, piloting competency-based high school graduation requirements, supporting students to avoid remediation in college through targeted math instruction during the senior year, and creating a new system for school districts to award college and career pathways endorsements on high school diplomas.
Public Act 99-0674
, was signed into law on July 29, 2016. The Act was amended in 2018 by
Public Act 100-0599.