Showing posts with label Fairfax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fairfax. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Relying on Kaiser--More on Vaccination

 When I wrote before about getting vaccinated, I assumed that Kaiser would notify me when I was eligible and they had the vaccine.  Having revisited their site today I'm not sure that's right.  I've not seen any discussion from either Kaiser or Fairfax.

I see Fairfax County Health Department has a vaccine registration app, which I've completed. A fair number of questions on health--allergies, etc. but it was easy enough to complete in a couple minutes. (I'm a vanilla case, answering "no" to most of the questions.) Notably, they didn't ask for my medical provider so they don't have an obvious way to cross check with Kaiser.


Saturday, September 21, 2013

SOL Results for Fairfax County--Disturbing

Via the Reston Patch, here's the full release of results on the state Standards of Learning test for Fairfax county.  The test changed this year so the release notes one can't directly compare these results with those for prior years. 

That's fine, but.  And it's a big but.  What's noticeable to me is that the current year scores are down more for blacks, Hispanics, students with disabilities, economically disadvantaged, and limited English proficient than they are for whites and Asians.  That pattern is disturbing because just a simple change of standards, making the test harder, shouldn't show it.  Something else is going on.

English Reading Performance
Student  Group
Virginia
FCPS
2010-11
2011-12
2012-13
2010-11
2011-12
2012-13
All Students
88
89
75
93
94
82
Black
80
80
59
87
88
68
Hispanic
84
84
65
86
87
66
Asian
94
95
87
96
96
88
Economically Disadvantaged
80
81
59
85
86
63
Limited English Proficient
79
80
54
85
86
59
Students with Disabilities
67
66
43
85
84
56
White
92
93
82
97
97
90

The drop for whites is 7 points, for Asians 8, but 20 points for blacks, 21 for Hispanics and so on.