School districts would be allowed to adopt guidelines for high school graduation as they and the community see fit under a bill unanimously approved by a Senate panel Wednesday.

A coalition of educators and parents touted House Bill 1118, by Sen. Ron Tupa, D-Boulder, as a more middle-of-the-road approach than a Republican measure to require three years of math and science to graduate.

Parents and educators complained that each year the legislature floats proposals that would create a "one-size-fits-all" precollegiate curriculum.

The Republican sponsors of Senate Bill 131 are offering a compromise on their math-science graduation bill, including allowing sophomores who test well on those subjects to opt out of junior- and senior-year math and science courses.

The measure's initial four- years-of-math requirement would be reduced to three years.

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