Virginia is Not Eliminating Advanced Math Classes

On April 23rd, Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle” covered a story claiming the Virginia Department of Education intends to eliminate the option to take accelerated math before 11th grade. Fox stated that the move intends to increase equality but will result in “effectively keeping higher-achieving students from advancing as they usually would.” They sourced their information from a Facebook post by Loudoun County, Virginia school board member Ian Sarotkin (which has since been updated). The story began to spread on Twitter and users criticized the approach.