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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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[/quote]

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?[/quote]

On the national assessment, the term "proficient" is used to indicate a score that is above grade level.  The term "basic" is used to refer to a score that indicates grade level.  Youngkin and his ed dept deliberately conflated the two terms to make it look like virginia students are not at grade level.  The national exam scores do in fact match the SOL scores once you realize that "basic" means grade level and "proficient" means above grade level.[/quote]

This is one example. Also citing "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." as if that's indicative of some sort of trend because of educational performance of the public school education system, rather than acknowledging it's entirely driven by the realities of an evolving unprecedented-in-our-time global pandemic, and our underfunded schools not being able to realistically support in-person learning during that period of time, and so many parents with the means to temporarily pursue other options choosing to do so. Would be interesting to see how the number of 2022-23 homeschooled students compares to the number from 2020-21... if it has dropped (as I'm sure it has), does that mean our schools are now suddenly beacons of competence and that the concept of homeschooling is on the decline?  Or is it just a correction of the equally anomalous 2020-21 blip that had nothing at all to do with long-term trends?[/quote]

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