The Idaho State Board of Education has set a special meeting for Monday, at which it could decide to repeal a rule requiring all Idaho students to take at least two online courses to graduate from high school, now that the "Students Come First" law that directed the board to make the rule has been repealed by voters.

"There isn't a legal requirement, because the board has the authority to set administrative rules and to set graduation requirements," said board spokeswoman Marilyn Whitney. "That having been said, the board is well aware of the outcome of the election and this board has been very in tune with public input."

The board's agenda includes a pending rule to modify the graduation requirement, removing controversial requirements that at least one of the courses be "asynchronous," meaning the course is delivered entirely online and teachers and students participate on their own schedules. That requirement drew opposition from school boards, school administrators and Idaho school districts; state lawmakers voted in in their last legislative session to do away with it.

The board has two options on Monday, Whitney said: Approve the pending change to the rule, or reconsider the whole rule and do away with the online graduation requirement. The board's agenda packet for Monday's meeting includes this note: "The part of the question posed to the voters in Proposition 3 clearly included the repeal of online learning as a graduation requirement. While the Board has the authority to promulgate rules setting minimum high school graduation requirements, the failure of proposition three removed the statutory requirement that they include online learning for the class of 2016."