Virginia Department of Education

agree.

And then secondly, she mentions in her comments, that she was able to get with the Virginia Department of Education Superintendent Conway,

and

he was able to help her kind of figure out what the priorities should be in this investigation and what they could maybe leave until later.

We're now buddies.

We're friends and we're equally responsible for the input and the output of this problem.

Isn't that interesting? And also, we welcome the involvement of the Virginia Department of Education, to which I say, ha, ha, ha, and we value their perspective.

Dr. Hayes and Dr. Berlin already had an initial meeting with the Virginia Department of Education Superintendent Conway.

If that scope does not go far enough to reach things like governance oversight, transparency, and other things that the board have highlighted in the resolution of concerns, then we are saying that yes, an investigation of a wider scope needs to happen.

And we've also called on if there needs to be investigations or review that can be done from the Virginia Department of Education then we're going to call on that too.

And this isn't, again, it can sound punitive to ask for an investigation.

It can sound that way, right? Like I'm hitting something with a hammer.

Last couple of things.

Ned, I know my colleagues and I are curious, and I think the public is as well.

You referenced the potential involvement of the Virginia Department of Education if you and your colleagues in the community are not satisfied with results of an initial independent investigation case.

some question was raised in the community about utilizing the same law firm that has represented the division in the past to conduct an independent investigation did you and your colleagues discuss that at all are you at liberty to talk about if you discussed it

That's up from 7 last year.

James Monroe High School made the second greatest gain over last year among all 116 schools in the Virginia Department of Education's Region 3.

Seven Spotsylvania County schools and two Stafford County schools were also among the top 20 Region 3 schools with the greatest gains.

This is the second year for the School Performance and Support Framework, which aims to measure how students perform against expectations.

And we're gonna discuss what happened yesterday with supervisors, um, who want answers.

They d- are demanding answers, and they want the Virginia Department of Education to determine, um, whether Albemarle County Public Schools has followed the letter of the law.

Ned Galloway, the chairman of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, said this is the hardest thing the man's ever done as an elected official in Albemarle County.

And there's an intriguing storyline here.

What's this doing to the Albemarle County Democratic Party? What does this do to an, an, a machine? The Albemarle County Democratic Party is an absolute machine, and there's no more, um, motivating or momentum-driving a factor than, than our children, than kids, the, especially elementary-aged kids, the most vulnerable of kids.

We'll unpack the, um, resolution from the Albemarle County, uh, Board of Supervisors in yesterday's meeting on the show.

They want the Virginia Department of Education to get involved.

They have questions.

And you can, if a smart teacher can see aspects of AI and say, "Oh, that's gonna help me with that aspect of teaching," not necessarily, "Oh, this will be fun for my kids." I'm curious what you're seeing in schools around that conversation.

Well, Dan, I, I think you're spot on, and my team at ALP and the partnership that we enjoy with the Virginia Department of Education, the Virginia Association of School Superintendents, and Virtual Virginia is a great case study for exploring that.

In the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Department of Education has made a proactive investment in AI literacy.

First for senior executives and division leaders, and now for teachers.

I mean, ALP is doing that across the United States and Canada.

A great example of how that's working at state scale is in Virginia.

And so from February until April, Virtual Virginia and Advanced Learning Partnerships, in partnership with the Virginia Department of Education and the Virginia Association of School Superintendents, created three virtual courses tied to specific instructional competencies developed by ALP.

And the rationale for making the content competency-based was to allow for school systems to use that content in different ways.

Keyris Manzanares, VPM News.

Also, six Richmond Public Schools are no longer identified as, quote, "low-performing schools." Virginia Department of Education's latest school performance designations elevate Henry L.

Marsh Elementary, Oak Grove-Bellemeade Elementary, Henderson Middle, Martin Luther King Jr.

Middle, Thomas C. Bushnell Middle, and Armstrong High.

And this goes to high school graduates who want to become a teacher, these grants and scholarships.

And the scholarship, and this was mandated by the legislature and the Virginia Department of Education, they're giving this money based on race.

You have to have a minority background to qualify for this scholarship.

And the General Assembly even appropriated money for these programs.