 The type of project, its rigor and its expectations are set by the individual school district.Effective with the graduating class of 2017, the Pennsylvania State Board of Education eliminated the state mandate that students complete a culminating project in order to graduate.According to a Pennsylvania Department of Education study released in January 2009, 11% of the United Junior Senior High School graduates required remediation in mathematics and or reading before they were prepared to take college level courses in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education or community colleges.