Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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Before you assure folks of that you might want to see what other agencies there are not associated with AdvancED. When you see other ones mentioned they are regional subsets of AdvancED or are for private schools etc. This is not a process external to the world of education. It is a collegial process born of an age when there was a lack of external validation of a district/schools efforts. The critical question that made it all worth while was how do we know we are doing what say we are doing. So your peers came in and gave a very time consuming in depth report. Today schools are over burdened with accountability and outside measurements. The time and resources need to do all of this is becoming even more limited. The process has been modernized and updated but the question of how needed it is should and ought be one of community discussion and not just the reaction by a slim board majority to some tough questions.
Since we live in a Republic/Democracy, those elected officials are within their bounds to inquire as to the validity of questions from an outside source, summoned by the board's opposition, not relating to the historical charter of the accreditor.
Since we live in a Republic/Democracy, those elected officials are within their bounds to inquire as to the validity of questions from an outside source, summoned by the board's opposition, not relating to the historical charter of the accreditor.
And you determined their historical charter how? They contracted with the group to provide them an assessment of what they are doing in relationship to the domains established by the company. That probably included a section on diversity and the NAACP was quite probably a community stakeholder involved in that process. Perhaps some of the stakeholders and those who signed on are now saying whoa this isn't what we agreed was our goal. Read some of the links regarding the group and the domains they assess.
READDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD and then comment on what they can and can't do and what the school system agreed to when they signed on who they probably identified as key community stakeholders previously. Don't mean to be rude but if the board won't lay out what the process is and how it works someone needs to. Now go argue with AdvancED and what their program is and why the school system agreed to it. If Wake doesn't like it anymore they can pull out and address any concerns with the community afterwards.
The following is a progress report for one of the high schools and helps them to assess how well they are doing what they said they would. This sorta like a followup interim report. http://www.wcpss.net/school-director...ts/441-apr.pdf
Plenty of excellent high schools are NOT accredited...so I'm not clear on what the negative consequences of this will be.
School quality in NC is governed by the state, so why use an outside accrediting organization? Does AdvancED charge a fee for their services?
I searched their website to see...lots of schools in NC are accredited through AdvancED but NY, PA and Mass (not a very scientific sample, i admit) have very few.
Sure most colleges get excited about Seniors applying from High Schools that are not accredited
The following is a progress report for one of the high schools and helps them to assess how well they are doing what they said they would. This sorta like a followup interim report. http://www.wcpss.net/school-director...ts/441-apr.pdf
3.0 Recommendation 1
"... The school is looking at a "one-lunch" period which would allow meeting time with students who ride the bus over an hour each way daily. This would allow the faculty access to the students who are currently so hard to reach."
AdvancED states that students who over an hour each way daily are so hard to reach. The only reason these students are bussed for that far of a distance in Wake County is to meet the diversity quotas and AdvancED has basically documented that it is failing.
Do a little more homework and you'll find that graduation rates are higher for economically challenged students in surrounding districts who use neighborhood assignment models. This includes Durham, the home of the man who filed the alleged segregation complaint.
So let AdvanED do the investigation. If they say the board has no basis for changing the assignment policy with regard to student achievement then something stinks -- REALLY STINKS!
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