Why Be Accredited?

NAAS accreditation provides benefits at all levels of the educational system.

• For school boards, NAAS accreditation provides independent, third-party verification that the taxpayers' dollars are being spent to provide a quality education program.
• For the public, accreditation verifies that schools are doing what they say they are doing.
• For parents, accreditation assures them that their children are receiving a quality education that will be recognized across state lines and by colleges and universities across the world.
• For the school, accreditation engages the entire school staff in meeting rigorous standards and in continuous improvement.
• For the students, accreditation provides an environment of quality and a commitment to helping all students achieve.

From the Richard H. Bryan Elementary school self-study ... "We have learned to share our work with our community, and that has reaped us rich dividends. Without this accreditation process, we might have failed to articulate that which is most important to us and to understand the significance of using student performance data to correct instruction midcourse, which would have delayed, if not deterred, our progress in improving student achievement."

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