What Is a Proficiency-Based Diploma?

By far, this news piece on Maine’s proficiency-based diploma is the best I’ve seen at explaining what we mean when we say proficiency-based learning or competency education. The big point is that we know ask for 4 math courses to graduate rather than being proficient in them.

We still need to get our explanations down to an “elevator speech”.  We’d love to hear how you explain what proficiency-learning is? (or whatever term you use in your school and state).