Fairfax Schools To Pursue State Accreditation Waiver
Program would exempt schools through the 2014-2015 year
Eight Vienna schools are among the 101 high-performing schools across the state that could earn waivers from Virginia's annual accreditation process, allowing educators to focus less on the test and more on innovating in the classroom, local and state officials said this week. Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction Patricia I. Wright said eligible schools have achieved pass rates of 95 percent or higher in four Standards of Learning (SOL) content areas — English, math, science and history — for the past two years. The three-year waivers would allow the schools to stay fully accredited through the 2014-2015. The high marks have earned schools "an opportunity to set aside concerns about annual accreditation for three years and lead …
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Karen S.
10:11 am on Thursday, June 21, 2012
Specifically, how would a waiver affect the schools and the students? Do the students in those school not take the SOLs for 2014-2015? And what do more rigorous standards on the SOLs have to do with seeking a waiver? Wouldn't the lower performing schools want a waiver to figure out how to teach to more rigorous standards; I would imagine that higher performing schools would be able to take higher… more ›