Youngkin Says Report on ‘Honesty Gap’ Points to Decline in Virginia Schools
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"Pointing to what the 34-page Virginia Department of Education report described as an “honesty gap” between what state learning assessments show and how Virginia students fare on a national assessment, Youngkin suggested decisions of prior administrations created an inaccurately rosy picture of the state of K-12 education.
Citing findings from the education reform nonprofit Achieve, Youngkin and his schools team said Virginia has an unusually wide gap between its state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which tests samples of students from each state to produce a metric called “The Nation’s Report Card.” For 2019, state Standards of Learning assessments showed 75 percent of Virginia fourth-graders proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent proficiency under the NAEP, according to the new report. The gap was wider at higher grade levels, with 76 percent of eighth-graders showing reading proficiency on SOLs, and 33 percent showing proficiency according to the NAEP. To underscore some parents’ frustration with the state of public schools, the Youngkin administration’s report notes the number of homeschooled students jumped 56 percent in the 2020-2021 school year. That same year, the report says, 3,748 public-school students transferred to private schools in Virginia. “We are not serving all of Virginia’s children,” Youngkin said. “And we must.” The Youngkin administration’s analysis showed similar assessment gaps in math scores, and wider gaps in both math and reading for Black, Hispanic and low-income students. The governor’s office also presented data showing those achievements got worse due to pandemic-era school closures, with SOL pass rates dropping substantially between 2017 and 2021 for Black, Hispanic and low-income third-graders while white students showed a more modest decline. https://news.yahoo.com/youngkin-says-report-honesty-gap-140100639.html |
Anonymous
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Duh.
The state lowered the SOL standards. |
Anonymous
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This report came out over a month ago and was challenged at the time as misleading.
https://bluevirginia.us/2022/05/va-senate-dems-rip-youngkin-education-report-as-a-joke-dog-whistle-talking-points-outright-lie-supported-by-cherry-picked-data-and-warped-perspective |
Anonymous
Didn’t it bother you at all that the content in your link is lacking in, uh, content? The data is cherry picked, how? Misleading how? Inaccurate how? |
Anonymous
| Youngkin's solution will be to privatize everything so he can basically say its not my problem |
Anonymous
| Yeah. I'm curious how those private school and homeschool kids measure up. Some I'm sure do fine, but I'm sure there are a ton that aren't learning much of anything and certainly don't have a wide view of the world. New York has Regents exams which every student has to take for graduation in four subjects - Science, History, Math, and English. There is a passing and honors-level achievement. If Virginia students including homeschool and private school had to take a test like this we would find out how all students were actually doing. |
Anonymous
| I appreciate more focus on this. I was mad that they got rid of the SOL tests. It showed in what my children learned each year from the first to the last student who went through. |
Anonymous
I'm down. At least then we can choose to go to a good school. |
Anonymous
You can choose a good school now. Either move or pay for it, don't ask the government to give you a hand out. |
Anonymous
| Maybe it would be instructive to compare the results from the deep red parts of the state to the deep blue parts if you're trying to see whose policies work best |
Anonymous
With what money? No voucher will begin to pay the cost of tuition at a good school |
Anonymous
I already pay $$$ in property taxes and 65% of that goes to schools- it is NOT a hand-out. We're paying huge amounts of money for bad schools. |
Anonymous
It would be help if a voucher equivalent to your county's spending per student |
Anonymous
For an english language student without a significant IEP, that's probably less than 12k. Good luck finding a good school in that price range that is both willing to accept vouchers and has capacity to accept your kid and is willing to take your kid over every other kid with a voucher. |
Anonymous
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OK. Can he tear himself away from attacking women's rights for long enough to come up with a fair and equitable solution to this educational decline? |