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Guidance Document Change: High-Quality Work-Based Learning (HQWBL) comprises school-coordinated workplace experiences related to students’ career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations. The Board approved revised guidance on June 15, 2022.

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7/23/22  12:28 am
Commenter: Anne Taydus. VAFCF.org

Why can’t you just teach them academics?
 

Create the mental “crisis” - lower the bar for what mental health “professionals” are

Create a possible (planned) 4th industrial revolution created by a planned failing economy…. So you can offer RIDICULOUS EDUCATION REFORM like this (Which is Casel I am sure you know) 

our children are not going to be trained in school.  They will be educated - let me quote Andrew Rotherham Youngkin’s new appointee 

2008! he wrote this- CHANGING THE GAME: THE FEDERAL ROLE IN SUPPORTING 21ST CENTURY EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION

Sara Mead (New America Foundation)

Andrew J. Rotherham (Education Sector)

“To resolve dramatic disparities in educational achievement and ensure future American workers are globally competitive, the federal government needs, as it has in the past, to change the game in public education”

A New Federal Approach
The federal government should catalyze a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in public education through a new Office of Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation (OEEI) within the U.S. Department of Education. With a small and nimble staff and an independent review board, OEEI would strategically collaborate with entrepreneurs, innovators, philanthropists, and state/local governments

To genuinely “change the game” in education as it has in the past, the federal government must do a much better job of catalyzing and supporting both innovation and entrepreneurship in public education. To do this, it must partner with philanthropy, social entrepreneurs, and the private sector to make significant new investments in educational research and development, to identify and develop the next generation of educational innovations, and to scale up successful models. It must also model the habits of innovation we seek to generate in public education more generally by creating a new culture of innovation and entrepreneurship within the U.S. Department of Education, starting with the creation of a robust Office of Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation that will serve as a contact point and advocate for educational entrepreneurs, innovators, and philanthropists within the Department. Creating this new federal role in educational innovation must be at the top of the incoming administration’s education policy To-Do list.

ANOTHER 1999

By Andrew Rotherham Progressive Policy Insitute April 1999

To update ESEA for the information age, PPI believes Congress must:
 Introduce real accountability by making ESEA funding performance-based rather than a guaranteed source of revenue for states and school districts;
 Define performance benchmarks for states and localities;
 Consolidate ESEA programs into funding primarily for compensatory education,
professional development, limited English proficient students, and innovative
strategies;
 Concentrate ESEA funding on impoverished areas where schools are most likely
to be in distress;
 Terminate funding for states and districts that consistently fail to meet
established benchmarks.
With this new role, Washington should play a more active role in bench marking quality and measuring performance. It should do less micro-managing of how local school officials raise their students and teachers to higher levels of performance. The federal government should get out of the business of accounting for programmatic inputs and instead focus more strategically on empowering citizens with information, setting broad standards and goals, measuring and comparing results, and researching effective strategies for school improvement.
In the New Economy, knowledge intensive jobs are increasingly the norm. As Robert Atkinson and Randolph Court reported recently, "Since 1969, virtually all jobs lost in goods production and distribution sectors have been replaced by office jobs."6 In the past, students at the bottom-end of America’s education system were not learning advanced skills and knowledge. This reality was papered over by, and to some degree driven by, an abundance of unskilled and low-skill jobs. The economy lent itself to schools that were, in the words of Hugh Price, "expected to educate a small percentage of supposedly bright kids extremely well" while paying "scant attention to those who struggled academically."7 The old economy didn’t demand a large number of highly educated workers. In the New Economy all students must be competent learners if they are to thrive in this new era.

 

another new Youngkin appointee. Alan Seibert 

Virginia is for Verners 2019
? Developastatewideframeworkonwork-basedlearning:
As work-based learning opportunities proliferate, it is imperative that clear and consistent guidelines and best practices are provided to local school divisions to ensure that all students are being equitably served.
• The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) needs to develop a framework
that provides guidance to local programs to ensure consistent implementation and quality.
• This framework should be created with input from workforce leaders, leveraging the proposed education-business advisory council.
• This framework should also offer best practices for local school divisions to engage with students, parents, and the community to build support and participation.
• This framework should align with and support the VDOE’s High School Innovation Grants, emphasizing personalized learning and the use of performance assessments to measure student achievement.
• Guidance for counselors should be embedded in this framework to ensure that meaningful support is being provided to all students as they identify appropriate coursework while
in high school and how it will prepare them for the next step.

We aren’t stupid and our children aren’t responsible for what could happen in the future  THAT IS WHAT ADULTS ARE FOR

yall are disgusting 

 

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