Reject the proposed Statewide Comprehensive Support Plan. This plan threatens the integrity of our public education system and undermines local authority.

Virginia's public schools are among the best in the nation, yet this plan seems designed to artificially lower school ratings and justify an unprecedented state takeover. The drastic reduction in support for Multilingual Learners and the confusing new reporting levels will unfairly penalize our most diverse and vulnerable districts.

This plan appears to advance a political agenda favoring school privatization, bypassing the legislature and ignoring the real needs of our students and educators. Our schools need support, not state control.

If this new accountability system was really good for kids and public education, Secretary Guidera wouldn't need to solicit her "education stakeholders" to flood the public comments with support.