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dents who took the new grade-6 mathematics test passed, and 44 percent tested on the new seventh-grade assessment passed.
Surrounding counties have also had difficulties meeting AYP.
In Orange County, both Orange Elementary and Prospect Heights Middle School failed their AYP.
Page County elementary schools passed their AYP, but Luray High School failed. Similar results were found in Warren County, where only the high school failed to make AYP.
In Fauquier County, six elementary and middle schools failed and in Madison County, the William H. Wetsel Middle School failed.
In Culpeper County, two middle schools and the Pearl Sample Elementary School failed. The state responds
Following complaints from several regional superintendents, State Superintendent Dr. Billy K. Cannaday Jr. assembled the Superintendent’s Middle School SOL Mathematics Committee to review the testing process.
The committee was composed of division superintendents, principals, mathematics specialists and teachers, division directors of testing and key instructional leaders.
They discussed the new tests with area educators and administrators during a special Advisory Meeting on Middle-School Mathematics Performance held on August 17.
“State Superintendent Cannaday met with 20 representatives from school division supervisors and educators in mid-August,” said Julie Grimes, the Public Information Specialist for the State Board of Education. “There was found to be no scoring errors and no equation errors.”
Charles Pyle, the agency’s spokesman, has said that the test results were valid and that the state had no plans to drop them from its calculations for accreditation.
Following the meeting, Dr. Cannaday sent an e-mail to division superintendents defending the results of the
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