Youngkin and his superintendent cast doubt on the ratings as they released results showing most public K-12 schools are accredited.
But Gov. Glenn Youngkin , who won the office last year by railing against extended school closures under Democrat Ralph Northam, greeted the accreditation findings that were announced this week with intense skepticism — and a call for scrapping the way Virginia evaluates schools.
Youngkin’s superintendent, Jillian Balow, cast doubt on the test results even as she announced the findings.“The school ratings we are releasing today fail to capture the extent of the crisis facing our schools and students,” she said in a written statement. “We intentionally put in language to save people from having to use covid data” alone, said Del. Carrie E. Coyner , a House Education Committee member who sponsored the amendment and said she was “not surprised” that accreditations held fairly steady as a result.But she also said she agrees with Youngkin’s call to revamp the accreditation system to provide “a more accurate flashlight” on student proficiency.
Atif Qarni, who was education secretary under Northam, defended the accreditation standards as the “nuanced” product of careful study and cooperation between two Democratic governors and the Trump administration.“He manufactured that there’s this crisis in public education,” said Qarni, “So whenever there are facts that show that’s not the case, he’s going to push back on that.”“The system was not built in a way to provide a true assessment of proficiency,” said Del. Glenn R.
While Qarni said the old system masked stubborn failures among students with special needs, Youngkin and some other Republicans see it the other way around — that the current one is masking failures in overall performance by giving schools credit for making progress with certain sets of special-needs students.
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