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Meeting Date:
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8/24/2018 - 7:00 PM
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Category:
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Accountability
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Type:
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Info
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Subject:
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SOL Report and Accreditation Timeline
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ACPS 2025 Strategic Plan Goal:
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Objective 1.1
Educational Excellence ACPS will regularly assess and respond to the needs, interests, and abilities of individual students.
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Funding Source or Fiscal Impact (where applicable)
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File Attachment:
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Agenda Item Summary:
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The goal of this memo is to provide information on SOL pass rates and update the School Board on the timeline for dissemination of SOL and Accreditation system results from the 2017-2018 school year. Changes within the State Accreditation system of moving to a multiple measures model that incorporates growth and illuminates subgroup performance is a great value to the division as it more closely aligns to existing ACPS practices and values. This year this alignment across state, division, and school will continue to be reinforced through department and school improvement plans, the beliefs and values reinforced by leadership across all levels, and the practices and strategies used to continuously improve across all facets of the organization.
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Background:
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As discussed with the Board on January 11 and February 22, 2018, the Virginia Board of Education (VBOE) approved changes to the State’s Accreditation Accountability system in November 2017. The changes adopted by the VBOE were significant in scale and aimed to provide a more comprehensive picture of school quality while driving continuous improvement for all schools through the new system. To achieve these aims, the new system incorporates a wider breadth of indicators than the previous system and also has provisions which recognize student growth for discrete indicators. Annually the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) releases SOL pass rate results as well as accountability system statuses within a set timeline.
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Recommendation:
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The Superintendent recommends the review of the information contained within this memo and the attachments for an understanding of high-level SOL pass rates and the timeline of SOL data releases and a reminder to the structures and mechanisms contained within the new Accreditation system.
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Approvals:
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Recommended By:
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Signed By:
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Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr. - Superintendent
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