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State lists Colonial Beach among Virginia's lowest-achieving schools, but town's superintendent takes issue with designation Date published: 3/7/2010
BY FRANK DELANO The Virginia Department of Education has identified Colonial Beach High School as one of the state's lowest-achieving schools. According to a Department of Education memo sent this week to school superintendents, Colonial Beach High is in the bottom 5 percent of the state's 1,865 public schools in terms of its students' academic achievement in English and mathematics. The school has also not significantly reduced its failure rate in English and math in the past two years, the memo said. Department of Education spokesman Charles B. Pyle said the designation would make the school "eligible for significant additional resources" if the town school system accepts aggressive measures to improve it. Replacing the principal and teachers, revamping instruction and hiring educational managers are among turnaround steps mandated by federal regulations. "I have grave issues about [the designation]," Colonial Beach schools Superintendent Donna S. Power said last week. She said she will have an online conference tomorrow with state education officials "to decide if we are truly on that list and what are the ramifications." "Since becoming superintendent [in August 2009], it's become obvious to me that some of the reporting was not always accurate. We're checking every state report against all student records to make sure the data VDOE has used is accurate," Power said. Power said she also wants to inform state officials of recent improvements in student instruction and "mitigating circumstances," such as the interim superintendent who preceded her, that may have affected school performance. If state officials do not change the designation, "We'll do what's best for the Colonial Beach schools," she said. Colonial Beach High Principal Clint Runyan reported an enrollment of 233 students last month. The school is fully accredited, but "not in improvement," according to the state. Under the No Child Left Behind Act, Colonial Beach High made annual yearly progress goals in two of the past three years. The school, along with its English and math test results, has been rated "not in improvement" for all three years.
Date published: 3/7/2010
how do you expect the students to? "...on that list and what are the ramifications." What she meant to say, of course, is 'what the ramifications are.'
1-We decided last week when we found out this was coming to put our plans to home-school our 7th grader that is due to move from CBES to CBHS next year into high gear. The retirees that really run the town will likely use this as the opportunity for which they've been waiting to close the school down, and we're not going to let our child get caught in the crossfire. 2-It says a lot that one year after they manage to field a state champion basketball team, this happens. Nice priorities, CB. Disgusting.
its not the stability in the school system thats for sure
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