Completed in 2023 in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Images by Joel Daniel Pringle & Michael Stoebner. The MATTER Career Readiness Institute (MCRI) is the main building dedicated to a training program that is the result of a collaborative partnership.
BY THE EDITORIAL PAGE STAFF OF THE FREE LANCE-STAR
PUBLIC school students in Virginia are entitled to an education that best fits their specific needs. This applies not only to students who are struggling academically, but also to students who are willing and able to do accelerated work.
Last month, a committee of the Virginia Department of Education looked at the possibility of consolidating the commonwealthâs standard and advanced diplomas as a way to achieve racial equity. âThere does continue to be a stark difference in which students we see earning which diploma,â said Leslie Sale, director of the VDOE Office of Policy. She noted that in 2019, 79 percent of Asian students earned advanced diplomas, compared with 63 percent of white students, 44 percent of Hispanic students, and 40 percent of Black students.