Do you think think Youngkin will use accreditation standards to come after ACPS

[Anonymous]

Youngkin is attacking the accreditation standards as too lenient and not reflective of current school academic performance (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/23/youngkin-school-ratings/). With ACPS’s poor academic performance on the most recent SOLs, could some ACPS schools be at risk of losing accreditation if the standards are tightened and then Youngkin could use non-accreditation to exercise more control…..

[Anonymous]

Youngkin is doing exactly that.

[Anonymous]

Youngkin is attacking all public schools, it’s not specific to ACPS.

[Anonymous]

There’s only so much that can be done. There is concentrated poverty in Alexandria that nothing is going to solve.

Crappy attitude, I know, but it’s the bottom line.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin is attacking the accreditation standards as too lenient and not reflective of current school academic performance (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/23/youngkin-school-ratings/). With ACPS’s poor academic performance on the most recent SOLs, could some ACPS schools be at risk of losing accreditation if the standards are tightened and then Youngkin could use non-accreditation to exercise more control…..

Control to do what- make some charter schools?

Or are you asking because you are interested in having reduced tuition at say the saints or country day?
Vouchers would be great right- take away money from the poor and give it to the rich kids who are already accepted and can pay full tuition.

[Anonymous]

I’m sure he’d love any mechanism for a state takeover of ACPS schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure he’d love any mechanism for a state takeover of ACPS schools.

Youngkin is not interesting in a state takeover of schools. He wants to implement for-profit private/charter schools and implement a voucher program to fund them with public money. His plan to accomplish this is to drive public schools so far into the ground (or at least make people believe they are absolutely terrible) so he can build public support for an alternative program that ultimately will benefit the wealthy at the expense of low-income students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure he’d love any mechanism for a state takeover of ACPS schools.

Youngkin is not interesting in a state takeover of schools. He wants to implement for-profit private/charter schools and implement a voucher program to fund them with public money. His plan to accomplish this is to drive public schools so far into the ground (or at least make people believe they are absolutely terrible) so he can build public support for an alternative program that ultimately will benefit the wealthy at the expense of low-income students.

Right. He would use the state takeover process to eventually dismantle and privatize the schools.

[Anonymous]

Example of how state takeovers of local schools leads to charters/privatization.

https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/educators-mobilize-school-takeovers-open-door-charter-expansion

This is what I was suggesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin is attacking the accreditation standards as too lenient and not reflective of current school academic performance (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/23/youngkin-school-ratings/). With ACPS’s poor academic performance on the most recent SOLs, could some ACPS schools be at risk of losing accreditation if the standards are tightened and then Youngkin could use non-accreditation to exercise more control…..

Control to do what- make some charter schools?

Or are you asking because you are interested in having reduced tuition at say the saints or country day?
Vouchers would be great right- take away money from the poor and give it to the rich kids who are already accepted and can pay full tuition.

Yes, Charter schools but I think that is a lesser concern (and might even help some students). Of more concern, interfering with policies based on his claimed concerns about critical race theory and lack of parent rights, etc. In essence, I do think ACPS is a mess academically but I suspect that any control Youngkin can obtain would be used to score political points against the “libs” and not to actually help students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure he’d love any mechanism for a state takeover of ACPS schools.

Youngkin is not interesting in a state takeover of schools. He wants to implement for-profit private/charter schools and implement a voucher program to fund them with public money. His plan to accomplish this is to drive public schools so far into the ground (or at least make people believe they are absolutely terrible) so he can build public support for an alternative program that ultimately will benefit the wealthy at the expense of low-income students.

If it is at the expense of low-income students, why are so many low-income parents eager to send their kids to charter schools, and supporting vouchers to do so?

[Anonymous]

Parents and kids will always be the pawns in the political battles waged over public schools. The Democrats will bend over backwards to do the bidding of public school employees and the Republicans will wage holy war to demonize them. It’s all about which tactic will get the most votes; kids and families are just collateral damage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure he’d love any mechanism for a state takeover of ACPS schools.

Youngkin is not interesting in a state takeover of schools. He wants to implement for-profit private/charter schools and implement a voucher program to fund them with public money. His plan to accomplish this is to drive public schools so far into the ground (or at least make people believe they are absolutely terrible) so he can build public support for an alternative program that ultimately will benefit the wealthy at the expense of low-income students.

If it is at the expense of low-income students, why are so many low-income parents eager to send their kids to charter schools, and supporting vouchers to do so?

Because they all mistakenly think they will get a seat at a private school or charter and that charter schools will provide a better education.

All this will do is drain funds from public schools, making them worse for most low-income kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents and kids will always be the pawns in the political battles waged over public schools. The Democrats will bend over backwards to do the bidding of public school employees and the Republicans will wage holy war to demonize them. It’s all about which tactic will get the most votes; kids and families are just collateral damage.

Nope.

Democrats were managing risk with limited resources during a deadly pandemic, not trying to “get the most votes”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents and kids will always be the pawns in the political battles waged over public schools. The Democrats will bend over backwards to do the bidding of public school employees and the Republicans will wage holy war to demonize them. It’s all about which tactic will get the most votes; kids and families are just collateral damage.

Nope.

Democrats were managing risk with limited resources during a deadly pandemic, not trying to “get the most votes”.

The damage the Democrats did to kids’ educations due to a low-risk strategy intended to demonstrate their fidelity to the wishes of teachers’ organizations won’t soon be forgotten, no matter how much Randi Weingarten and her cronies invite us to engage in collective amnesia.