The Fairfax County Public Schools superintendent said the district in Virginia is working on a system to ensure timely notification to all students honored by the National Merit Scholarship program, after weeks of criticism over delays at several schools.
Superintendent Michelle Reid denied allegations Friday from some parents and Gov. Glenn Youngkin that the delays were driven by an equity agenda and concerns about hurting the feelings of students who didn’t receive recognition.
“Let me clearly state this is not a war on merit, nor was it a concerted systemwide effort to deny recognition to these students,” Reid wrote in a letter to the community Friday.is working to understand the cause of the problem and consider solutions and said she expected to have a plan to share in April. She also criticized the National Merit Scholarship Corp.’s lack of direct notification to students. Instead, the group relies on schools to share the news.
Students are typically notified of their commended-student status in September so they can mark the distinction on college applications, according to the scholarship organization. The schools have said their failures were errors that they would rectify in the future.that would prohibit any public school or employee from withholding recognition, awards or scholarship eligibility.
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