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[quote=Anonymous]^ What do you base this on?  Initially GW was going to remain two schools, and the school board was on board with that (at the time those initial results came out). Then, teachers in particular questioned the survey results/conclusions that that had been based on, and meetings took place with parents and teachers.

After those meetings, it was stated their new conclusion was that the majority favored going back to one school.

While yes, the overall vote on Thursday proved all on the school board were in favor, they were in favor of the overall plan, and there was some discussion regarding GW remaining 2 schools (via Williams amendment).

And by the way, the Washington Post clarified in their article related to this, that consolidating doesn't mean starting from scratch with their AYP results (SOL tests impact on accreditation) but they will have one advantage...they go to whichever smaller school had the better accreditation from last year. So GW will take on GW1 and be fully accredited, and Hammond takes Hammond1 is in only the first year of warning status...but not at the beginning of the cycle, so they are still indeed impacted by how "poorly" they had previously done.  I say poorly in quotes, because I don't believe using only testing to rate a school is a good method of analysis.

Here is the Post article referenced:[url] http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/alexandria-school-board-reconsolidates-middle-schools/2014/02/21/508ecac0-9b1f-11e3-975d-107dfef7b668_story.html[/url][/quote]

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