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In September 1997, the Board of Education established new Standards of Accreditation (SOA) for public schools in Virginia that link statewide accountability tests to the SOL and hold students, schools, and school divisions accountable for results. The results of the SOL directly affect the schools that administer them as much as the students.
The Accountability Group is responsible for ensuring that States develop and update the accountability systems used to hold school districts and schools responsible for student achievement under Title I, Part A as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This group reviews and recommends approval or disapproval of annual State amendments ...
The 2010 Quality Counts report ranked Virginia's K–12 education fourth best in the country. [2] All school divisions must adhere to educational standards set forth by the Virginia Department of Education, which maintains an assessment and accreditation regime known as the Standards of Learning to ensure accountability. [3]
Sep. 22—As Indiana looks to revise its accountability system, should schools continue to be graded on an A to F scale? While Indiana's school accountability measures undergo revision, schools ...
The Virginia Department of Education is the state education agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia.It is headquartered in the James Monroe Building in Richmond. [1] The department is headed by the Secretary of Education (currently Aimee Guidera), who is a member of the Virginia Governor's Cabinet, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction (currently Lisa Coons), a position that is also ...
All of the K-12 school districts are classified as dependent public school systems by the U.S. Census Bureau. [2] Each public school division is associated with one or more of the counties , independent cities and incorporated towns in Virginia, with major portions of their funding (and in many instances other services) provided through those ...
List of Virginia superintendents of public instruction from 1870 – till date. No. Portrait Name (Birth–Death) Term Governor 1 William Henry Ruffner (1824–1908) March 5, 1870 – March 15, 1882 [5] 2 Richard Ratcliffe Farr (1845–1892) March 15, 1882 – March 15, 1886: William E. Cameron: 3 John L. Buchanan: March 15, 1886 – January 1 ...
The concept of the Governor's School actually started as a three-year grant funded program in Stafford County, Virginia, from 1970 - 1972. One hundred Stafford public high school students were selected as "day students" and 100 public high school students from across the state were invited to be "on campus" students and were housed at the then Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia.