State Suspends Funding on ACPS Adult Ed Program
Program has been under investigation by the state for irregularities.
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Virginia is suspending funding to the public school system's adult education program amid charges that there has been irregular conduct by Alexandria City Public School officials in helping prepare students for the GED test.
State education spokesman Charles Pyle told The Washington Examiner that Virginia is suspending funding of about $97,000 that Alexandria was scheduled to receive from grants. Alexandria has already spent its $22,000 allocation on adult education from the state.
Kent Dickey, Virginia's deputy superintendent for finance and operations, told the Examiner that ACPS acknowledged some violations of its assessment policies in a letter to Superintendent Morton Sherman.
The adult education program will proceed as scheduled for the rest of the year, and an ACPS spokeswoman said the school system "believes Virginia will reimburse Alexandria when it cleans itself up," according to the Examiner article.
Leslie Hagan
11:35 am on Tuesday, May 1, 2012
What has happened to ESL?
Morty
3:33 pm on Saturday, May 5, 2012
There is no more ESL...we have SFA. We are in violation of Federal Law there, too!
A teacher
9:54 pm on Sunday, May 6, 2012
The real question is "What has happened to ACPS?" We used to be an amazing district with accolades of which to be proud. Sadly, those days are long gone...
Leslie Hagan
10:28 pm on Sunday, May 6, 2012
Well, that was going to be my question but I felt it was too global. What is SFA and how does that put the system in violation of federal law.