Virginia Schools Signboard Deal with SACS CASI representing Infuse with Division Accreditations

January 21st, 2011 |

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The Southern Affiliation of Colleges and Schools (SACS) was founded in 1895. It is a voluntary, nongovernmental intercession with more than 13,000 accredited colleges, universities, subordinate, middle and rudimentary schools. The Congregation on Accreditation and School Improvements (CASI) is a disunity of SACS and accredits pre-kindergarten, K-12 and vocational schools in 11 southern states, as expertly as several other countries.

In the disclose suddenly of 2006, the Virginia schools signed an compact with SACS CASI. Under this agreement, Virginia schools divisions will be encouraged to undertake accreditation with the Council. The compact complements Virginia schools already rigorous accreditation standards and desire strengthen rabid foundations to continued development in wisdom and attainment within each school and each denomination division.

Not Virginia schools divisions may be accredited close to SACS CASI. To quality, all schools within a sectioning also obligated to be fully accredited at the beck the descriptive essay of a place Commonwealth’s Standards of Learning culpability program. This encourages and rewards the use of most talented practices at all levels of the state school division.

Additionally, a collective steering body choice unify the:

• Division accrediting process,
• Training and technical abide,
• Attention respecting achieving accreditation, and
• Last wishes as egg on all Virginia schools divisions to participate in the program.

Albeit the program is unsolicited for the seminary divisions, the Virginia schools views the accord as an incentive concerning its schools to accelerate their current efforts to set right instruction and inflate scholastic achievement.

The SACS CASI accreditation prepare compares the Virginia schools’ policies, practices and conditions with SACS CASI’s standards. They look at a variety of another best mode areas, such as governance, instruction, accountableness, management, planning and even improvement.

Accredited Virginia schools present their commitment to choicest practices, status instruction, and increased theoretical achievement. It is a feeling to gadget a systematic approximate to these goals at all levels within the university divisions.

An added benefit is to the position and local Virginia schools leaders, who interest these reassuring best practices with other accredited schools across the nation.

At the time of this scribble literary works, both Hanover and Roanoke County alma mater divisions have been accredited through SACS CASI. Seventeen other Virginia schools divisions are pursuing accreditation.

With stimulus from both SACS CASI and the Virginia schools, we should see assorted other seminary divisions with accreditation from the Congress within the next few years.