About 85% of Virginia schools received full accreditation this year – the lowest figure since before the state Board of Education revised the accreditation system in 2017.
The lower number of accredited schools comes despite recent increases in standardized testing scores and decreased chronic absenteeism rates, partly because of the system’s triennial waiver, which prevents schools from being penalized for a single bad year. This is the first year that schools are being evaluated on post-pandemic performance, following the three-year grace period.
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