All of Suffolk’s public elementary, middle and high schools have been fully accredited under the state’s Standard of Learning guidelines, according to the Virginia Department of Education. Accreditation is awarded to schools that meet or exceed state objectives on Standards of Learning tests and other statewide assessments in the four core academic areas — English, math, history and science. At least 70 percent of students in middle and high schools must pass the SOL tests in order for their schools to be accredited. In elementary schools, 75 percent of students must pass their English SOLs; 70 percent must pass math, and grade-five history and science; and 50 percent must pass grade-three science and history tests.
Would this serve as an example of "dumbing down?"
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Good thought. Virginia accreditation is a minimum bar for schools and is not the only bar.
One-third of the students in each content area can be failing their SOL assessments and a school can still be accreditated.
The real issue is that Virginia's accrediation process masks the groups of students who are truly at-risk for success - which is why our schools haven not yet met the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) benchmarks. The NCLB achievement targets are the same for different groups of students - and not all of the groups meet those targets.
Our Suffolk teachers have worked hard for school accreditation and we do want to recognize that.
Dr Liverman sure is quiet.Guess he cant handle taking all the credit... sarc. But then again its my opinion he cant take any at all and he knows it..Good job teachers...especially with what and who you have to deal with in and out of the classroom.
The Chinese and most of Europe are laughing at us. We will soon become their slaves our of blind ignorance, laziness and indifference. With an 11 trillon deficit a population conditioned by government schools to be self-focused there's no hope for recovery. We're gonners and don't even know it.
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