The Virginia Board of Education took another step on Friday to clarify how schools will be rated and student performance measured to better determine how to direct state resources. The board, on the superintendent’s recommendation, approved four performance descriptors: “Distinguished,” “On Track,” “Off Track” and “Needs Intensive Support.” Schools
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The sessions provided an opportunity for more than 800 parents, educators, and community members to comment on the development of the standards. The key takeaways from the sessions include strong support for the mastery index, a desire to use narrative, descriptive categories for school performance and identification, and a focus
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When something is not working, change it. The Virginia Board of Education is proposing that kind of transformative change for its new accountability framework, by splitting up the state’s accreditation system into two parts: an accreditation system, to assess whether schools are meeting all requirements laid out in state
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A state-led work group is recommending Virginia revise its Standards of Learning tests as part of broader plans to restructure the state’s system of assessing students and schools. The work group, which included Secretary of Education Aimee Guidera and Superintendent of Public Instruction Lisa Coons, was created by legislation
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Henrico County’s Dr. Amber Northern is one of three new Virginia Board of Education members who began their positions July 25 after being appointed by Governor Glenn Youngkin. Northern, who is from the Glen Allen area, is the senior vice president for research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute,
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