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Why should I attend the next
Rappahannock County School Board meeting?
Why are my taxes going up again? Why are we having issues with Standards of Learning (SOL) testing? Why is our high school not yet fully accredited by the state? Why is curriculum so important? Why does public school cost so much?
At the Dec. 19 meeting of the Rappahannock County School Board in the High School Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. you will have the opportunity to hear from an educational economics group known as the Virginia Consortium for Adequate Resources for Education (VaCAREs). This consortium is a statewide initiative to support a common goal of adequate state funding of public education. At a recent School Board meeting I mentioned that Virginia is 47th in the US for state support of public schools.
What does this mean? It means that the state is not pulling its weight and the localities are having to make up for it. The funding formula used by the state does not accurately reflect the true costs being incurred by school divisions across the Commonwealth.
The Commonwealth has changed the mission of the school system. Until coming on the School Board in August I was unaware of the magnitude of change required from the local school district by the state.
The Standards of Learning (SOL), Standards of Accreditation SOA), and Standards of Quality (SOQ) define our requirements. Prior to the adoption of the SOLs, schools were required to provide instruction but student learning
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