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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Alexandria Times, March 17, 2022
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https://alextimes.com/2022/03/your-views-times-columnists-need-viewpoint-diversity/

"....I was disheartened to learn that no economically disadvantaged student – or perhaps one, concealed by rounding – at my neighborhood elementary school, Naomi L. Brooks, earned a passing grade in science last year. According to the Virginia Department of Education, the share of economically disadvantaged students at Naomi Brooks who passed science declined from 47% in 2018-2019 to 0% in 2020-2021; mathematics dropped from 39% to 3%.

At Alexandria City High School, these figures decline from 56% to 26% and 58% to 28%, respectively. With no irony, the ACPS website header features “Equity for All” in large type. We have a duty to foster educational excellence and to hold public officials accountable for the same.

Alexandria’s education leaders use this platform to pay lip service to unspecified equity goals rather than leading with concrete actions addressing the gravest scandal in our city: the staggering achievement gap among our most vulnerable children...."[/quote]

How is a strategic plan of "Equity for All" going to fix and address this?  And to think the Board renewed the Superintendent's contract no questions asked.  I really would be curious to hear the Superintendent and Board Members make a list of ACPS' successes using data and measurable metrics.  [/quote]

Well when 0% of disadvantaged students pass science, you can take a page from the DC playbook and declare victory when the pass rate goes up to 5%.[/quote]

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