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Fairfax County, Virginia, school officials are pushing back on the state’s highly-scrutinized proposed history and social science standards of learning, calling some of them misplaced at certain grade levels, inaccurate and, in some cases, missing critical information.
The Department of Education is considering taking out chronic absenteeism as a factor that determines a schools accreditation.
Dozens of educators, parents, students & others attended and spoke at the Virginia Department of Education's public hearing at Jamestown Settlement in Williamsburg.
Opponents of the rewritten standards remained in the vast majority, but more backers of the revisions attended Monday's hearing.
Last month, the state board of education unanimously rejected standards from Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s team.