June 17, 2005

Statehouse Digest

By KARIN FISCHER and KATHERINE S. MANGAN

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS: Beginning this fall, high-school freshmen in Illinois could need an extra year of mathematics to graduate, part of a bill to toughen the state's high-school standards. Under the new requirements, which would be phased in during the next several years, all students would have to take at least two years of science, three years of math, four years of English, and two writing-intensive courses in high school. Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich, a Democrat who championed the new

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