Virginia Schools Sign Agreement with SACS CASI for School Division Accreditations

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) was established in 1895. It is an intentional, nongovernmental office with more than 13,000 licensed schools, colleges, optional, center and grade schools. The Council on Accreditation and School Improvements (CASI) is a division of SACS and authorizes pre-kindergarten, K-12 and professional schools in 11 southern states, and additionally a few different nations.

In the spring of 2006, the Virginia schools consented to an arrangement with SACS CASI. Under this assention, Virginia schools divisions will be urged to seek after accreditation with the Council. The understanding supplements Virginia schools officially thorough accreditation models and will construct solid establishments for proceeded with development in learning and accomplishment inside every school and every school division.

Just Virginia schools divisions might be licensed by SACS CASI. To quality, all schools inside a division additionally should be completely authorize under the Commonwealth's Standards of Learning responsibility program. This energizes and rewards the utilization of best practices at all levels of the school division.

Also, a joint directing advisory group will facilitate the:

• Division authorizing process,

• Training and specialized backing,

• Recognition for accomplishing accreditation, and

• Will empower all Virginia schools divisions to take an interest in the system.

In spite of the fact that the system is willful for the school divisions, the Virginia schools sees the assention as a motivating force for its schools to quicken their present endeavors to enhance direction and increment educational accomplishment.

The SACS CASI accreditation process looks at the Virginia schools' arrangements, practices and conditions with SACS CASI's benchmarks. They take a gander thinking optimistically rehearse ranges, for example, administration, guideline, responsibility, administration, arranging and managed change.

Certify Virginia schools exhibit their dedication to best practices, quality guideline, and expanded scholastic accomplishment. It is an approach to execute a precise way to deal with these objectives at all levels inside the school divisions.

An additional advantage is to the state and neighborhood Virginia schools pioneers, who impart these promising best practices to other authorize schools the country over.

At the season of this written work, both Hanover and Roanoke County school divisions have been authorize by SACS CASI. Seventeen other Virginia schools divisions are seeking after accreditation.

With consolation from both SACS CASI and the Virginia schools, we ought to see numerous other school divisions with accreditation from the Council inside the following couple of years.