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[quote=Anonymous]I can understand your frustration. "Personalization" in teaching/other seemed to be supported by the separation into two schools at ACPS GW and that's a great loss to students and parents.

Here's the ACPS Board's timeline-you should go to speak tonight at the Board meeting and gather others. No vote yet!

http://eboard.acps.k12.va.us/attachments/9dab9775-477f-4d2f-82cb-63db5c2b2d76.pdf

"Timeline
February 6th 2014- Board reviews recommendations and feedback from stakeholders
February 20th 2014- Board votes on middle school recommendations"

From the above document, a vital reason the ACPS School Board may vote for one GW and Hammond MS is the following:

"Currently, four out of five middle schools are “Accredited with Warning” in the area of mathematics; three of these schools are in their second consecutive year of warned status. This is of particular importance as current state legislation allows the Opportunity Educational Institution (OEI) the authority, upon a majority vote of its governing board, to supervise and operate schools that have been in warned status for three consecutive years. After consulting with VDOE officials, should the Francis Hammond Campus be combined into one school it would enter spring 2014 testing with a “Accredited with Warning – Year 1” status. The George Washington Campus, should it be combined, would enter spring 2014 testing with a status of “Fully Accredited.” Accreditation statuses for SY 14-15 would be determined by campus wide results on SOL tests administered during spring 2014. Table 2 provides a breakdown of each middle school’s accreditation status."

Table 2: Accreditation Status School Name Current Accreditation Status Accreditation Status if Schools Combined
Francis C. Hammond 1
Accredited with Warning Math – Year 1
Accredited with Warning Math – Year 1

Francis C. Hammond 2
Accredited with Warning Math – Year 2
Francis C. Hammond 3
Accredited with Warning Math – Year 2

George Washington 1
Fully Accredited
Fully Accredited

George Washington 2
Accredited with Warning Math – Year 2[/quote]

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