Fairfax County Advanced Academics Study Takes Shape
Board members wrestle with community surveys, system expansion as they give nod to staff study, which will be completed in June.
The Fairfax County School Board is continuing to weigh what advanced academics mean in the system, authorizing a scope of study Thursday night it hopes will provide better information about how and where services are delivered now — both in the county and across the country — and how that might improve in the future. The study was spurred by a discussion last fall on whether the school system should expand its Advanced Academic Program Centers, a move many vocal parents said needed further analysis and community dialogue. While the board voted in January to expand the centers to three additional elementary schools this fall, to relieve overcrowding, they stopped short of expanding across about a dozen and a half more elementary and middle …
Magpie
8:53 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
No - they don't, Kathy. Thank you for making this point. And, while I don't have any data to prove the converse, if it were a bet, I would put every last penny on my Thoreau-educated daughter. LOL! Lighten up, people - don't take yourselves and your labels so seriously. more ›