NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS & COLLEGES, INC.
COMMISSION ON PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Read the report withholding Accreditation of the NF High School
CLICK HERE > Alicia Roy correspondence with NEAS&C
Read the report withholding Accreditation of the NF High School
CLICK HERE > Alicia Roy correspondence with NEAS&C
At the second town hearing, Ron Oliveri, trying to downplay the importance of NEAS&C elicited from Alicia Roy the fact that, should we lose accreditation, our kids won't have a shot at competitive colleges. Oliveri was trying to say it was "just a non-profit" but Alicia made it clear that NEAS&C pretty much had control over the process and mattered a lot.
By the next hearing - at the BOF, Alicia was more prepared and tried to say we had "ten years" to fix everything, based on an undocumented alleged phone call with someone at NEAS&C. After being asked, Alicia conceded that the ten year window had started in 2007 and that we were approaching the 7 year point. Moreover, NEAS&C expected everything to be completed by then. When NEAS&C learns that the science wing is all we plan to do WATCH OUT.
The people of NF will be forced to do the rest of the schools because, as you can tell from the report, the problems are systemic. The paper should be flooded with letters about this. The progress report was sent. NEAS&C evaluated it. We are still on Accreditation warning.
By the next hearing - at the BOF, Alicia was more prepared and tried to say we had "ten years" to fix everything, based on an undocumented alleged phone call with someone at NEAS&C. After being asked, Alicia conceded that the ten year window had started in 2007 and that we were approaching the 7 year point. Moreover, NEAS&C expected everything to be completed by then. When NEAS&C learns that the science wing is all we plan to do WATCH OUT.
The people of NF will be forced to do the rest of the schools because, as you can tell from the report, the problems are systemic. The paper should be flooded with letters about this. The progress report was sent. NEAS&C evaluated it. We are still on Accreditation warning.
Regarding impact on students ability to get into college, opinions vary from virtually no impact (me) to very severe impact (administration). They claim that elite schools will not accept kids from a high school without accreditation. I point out that many religious high schools don't have accreditation and their kids get into elite colleges. Interesting enough, many of the elite colleges are now pursuing home schooled kids (who obviously are not accredited) because they do very well in college.
The other thing is that accreditation has very little to do with learning. Basically, it says you have a nice school environment with all the latest gizmos. It doesn't assess CMT scores, CAPT scores, SAT scores, ACT scores, or anything else that is an independent assessment of learning. (Or almost no big city schools would ever be accredited.) Colleges know this. And they do look at scores!
NEAS&C is essentially a conglomeration of school administrators and teachers who evaluate other schools (who pay them to do it). The conclusions are based on what the administration and teachers tell them. If you complain about something the taxpayers haven't provided, you get put on warning (then progressively through several stages to loss of accreditation). Then the administration goes to the public claiming that, unless you give us the money, we will lose our accreditation! NEAS&C will not accept the fact that something was proposed and the taxpayers voted it down. They want what they want - taxpayers will just have to get over it.
I believe that only one school has ever lost accreditation. And, yes, the process takes about 10 years.
So, form your own opinion, download the NEAS&C correspondence with New Fairfield.
