Jahd Khalil reports “Virginia is not doing anything right now in this space, because we are literally just having conversations with the community about what they want in the next set of revisions,” said James Lane, the Superintendent of Public Instruction in a press briefing Monday. "Acceleration is not going away in mathematics courses in Virginia. If a student needs an accelerated pathway, they will absolutely be able to do that.” Superintendent of Public Instruction James Lane speaks to reporters about VMPI. The Virginia Math Pathways Initiative is a cooperative effort between the Virginia Department of Education, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, and the Virginia Community College System to nail down what kind of math skills colleges and employers want from students and incorporate that into revised standards of learning for math, which are due in 2023. Those revisions are routine. Every seven years Virginia revises the standards of learning.