Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.  It is estimated that nearly 30 percent of Ohio's high school juniors will be unable to graduate in 2018. The "graduation crisis" is reportedly being caused by new graduation requirements that took effect this year. Despite attempts to avoid the crisis, today's juniors may still find it difficult to graduate. State legislatures have long driven education policy across the country. while teachers, students, and parents are left to adapt. Matt Jablonski, an American history teacher at Ohio's Elyria High School, discusses the graduation crisis in The Buckeye State. He writes about education and policy in his blog Teachers Window.