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By JANE BANGLEY
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The report on the administrative review of Rappahannock County Public Schools was presented to the School Board at its meeting on Wednesday, February 13. The report was written by a Virginia Department of Education administrative review team after their visit to Rappahannock in October.
The team stayed in Rappahannock for three days conducting interviews with students, teachers and administrators. All of the records for the schools and their programs were also examined.
The report was completed in November, and Superintendent Robert Estabrook told the Board members that the delay in making the report official is not usual. Estabrook said that the delay was due to a change in personnel on the project, and a series of correspondence with the Richmond office that negotiated some changes in the original report.
“The report now is here and official, and I guess that this is the time of year when the president reports on the state of the union, the governor on the state of the commonwealth and I can tell you that our system seems to be in fine shape,” Estabrook said. “That’s not to say that we don’t have concerns because we do.”
The purpose of the administrative review is to determine the local school divisions’ conformance, conformance with exceptions, or non-conformance with federal and state program regulations. The areas covered in the report were the Virginia standards of quality, state accreditation, special education, vocational education, food service, Chapter I, Chapter II and miscellaneous regulations. Chapter I refers to the remedial reading and math courses that receive federal funds, and Chapter II refers to a variety of programs that receive federal funds.
A list of the eight areas with a sample of the deficiencies citeu by the review team was given to the Board members. Three areas, food service, Chapter II and miscellaneous regulations, were in total compliance. Estabrook said that the other areas were listed as being in conformance with ex
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