Any Texas student age 18 or older can obtain a high school equivalency certificate if he passes one of the three approved equivalency exams offered in Texas. If the student is 17 andnotmarried or enlisted in the United States military, he may take the exam if he has parental permission to ...
In Texas, a student may drop out of public school if he is enrolled in a preparatory course for the high school equivalency examandmeets one of the following criteria: He has his parents’ permission to drop out. He has been ordered by the court to take the preparatory course. He is li...
Unpacking his belongings, he told the press he planned to spend his time watching wildlife programs, taking walks to help his bad back, and studying for his general equivalency diploma. “I never thought about being a pioneer,” he told the Houston Chronicle.“I just needed a place to live...
Applied for high school equivalency diploma at age 8 because he liked getting mail. Earned $18,000 selling Houston Post subscriptions while student at Memorial High School. Dropped out of UT after freshman year. “I started my company a week before finals. It hurt my GPA forever.” Sends ...
Center of the University of Texas at Austin conducted a standard-setting study in 1991 to reassess the use of the College Board's Achievement Tests in mathematics, Level I and Level II for course placement and credit by examination in an elementary functions and coordinate geometry course. Studen...
Responses were then categorized as "less than high school", "high school graduate/Gen- eral Equivalency Diploma (GED)", or "some college or greater". Smoking status was assessed by asking, "Have you smoked at least 100 cigarettes in your lifetime?" Subjects were categorized as smokers if ...
Minor Details Applied for high school equivalency diploma at age 8; planned to be a doctor. Landed in wheelchair temporarily last year after he crashed a friend’s go-cart. Rides mountain bicycle. Belton Kleberg Johnson 60, San Antonio Inheritance (King Ranch) $140 Million Why Him, Not Me...
But there was no question he was changing. He also earned his high school equivalency degree that year. (He proudly told me that he was named valedictorian of his class.) He stopped running with the other Crips and later signed a statement with prison officials vowing to stay out of gangs...