
Kristen Amundson, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates (D-Fairfax) and now communications manager for Education Sector, writes that Virginia’s Standard Diploma is "really substandard" because students never have to take the math classes that will prepare them for college-level math. As a result, they wind up in remedial classes. Read the op-ed [1].
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[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-fairfax-should-ax-the-substandard-standard-diploma/2011/05/26/AGlyJyCH_story.html