It didn't affect students; they were still counted as passing the diploma requirement.

It is inevitable that tougher diploma requirements will cause some increase in dropouts.

Such powers include the ability to create and abolish faculties, departments, schools and institutes, academic regulations, admission standards, degree and diploma requirements.

These schools' argument is that their own diploma requirements exceed Regents standards.

If the diploma requirements are barred, the argument goes, there will be no incentive for inner-city blacks to finish high school.

Environmental systems and societies SL is a transdisciplinary course designed to meet the diploma requirements for groups 3 and 4.

Each program maintains its own diploma requirements, and offers both a major and a minor in its discipline.

Noncredit diploma requirements include library skills, and physical fitness and health.

For now, students must take a mix of Web and correspondence courses to meet diploma requirements, which are 40 courses, or 200 course hours.

The school designed a program for Mr. Liverani, now 28, that allowed him to finish his diploma requirements in a year and a half.