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MEDIA ADVISORY

Dr. James J. Fedderman, President of the Virginia Education Association, made the following statement on release of the 2022-2023 school accreditation rankings:

These ratings show the resilience of our schools, educators, parents, and communities in working together as we recover from learning loss brought on from the pandemic, despite the Governor’s continued push to politicize our schools. These results reveal that the updated accreditation system, focused on growth, is working and more accurately measures progress across the Commonwealth. The Governor is now back peddling and desperately trying to find something to discredit our schools to advance his privatization agenda, instead of facing the truth that Virginia remains one of the top public education systems in the nation. These results do show that more of our students are in need of additional assistance to reach their potential, and we urge the Governor to focus the state Board of Education and General Assembly to direct their energies into solving these problems, not creating a new evaluation system that rubberstamps his partisan political aims.