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rates were achieved by just three wealthy counties, Fairfax, Henrico and Chesterfield. He notes that the system was originally developed with Standards of Learning (SOLs) to raise student learning rates and test scores which would boost public support for SOLs and reinforce the impact of SOLs.
However, in 1997, the Standards of Accreditation were amended to add the 70 percent goal, and Mr. Wheat demonstrates that this goal has undermined rather than supported the learning standards, creating “an implicit local target for ‘expected test results.’”
We have seen that impact in our county, with much ballyhoo in deceiving election flyers, that “four years ago, our schools were fully-accredited. Now, they’re not” and “the high school has lost its full accreditation for the past two years” and “the elementary school is ‘accredited with warning’, and “if our public schools lose their accreditation, colleges may not accept transcripts from our students.” Mr. Wheat debunks all
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