based on alternative methods, such as testing or written work,
credit for work or internship experiences, summer school, after-
school or online credit recovery programs overseen by a teacher
or other measures. If a student has taken a higher-level course
and is missing credit for a lower-level prerequisite course in
the same subject area, the student shall be granted a waiver,
with credit, for the prerequisite course.
(i) When a student experiencing an education disruption
lacks credits needed to graduate on time, or if education
records are missing, a school entity shall offer options to
allow the student to make up missing credits, such as testing or
written work, summer school, after-school or online credit
recovery programs overseen by a teacher or other assessments.
(j) If a student experiencing an education disruption
transfers at the beginning of the student's junior year of high
school or later and is ineligible to graduate from the student's
current school entity, a former school entity shall award a
diploma if the student meets the graduation requirements of the
former school entity.
(k) After exhausting all other options under this section, a
student experiencing an education disruption who has completed
at least four (4) years of high school and meets the State
graduation standards under section 1613, but who cannot obtain a
school entity-issued diploma, shall as a last resort be eligible
to obtain a Statewide secondary school diploma, known as the
Keystone Diploma, issued by the student's current school entity.
In this event, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
current school entity shall issue a Keystone Diploma to the
student. The diploma shall be conferred in the name of the
issuing school entity and shall identify the name of the issuing
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