What is WASC?
What is WASC Accreditation?
Accreditation is a process that occurs every three to six years where schools are evaluated as providing high-quality learning opportunities to students and demonstrating continual reflection and self-improvement.
An accredited school is focused on a mission and goals for students. It's primary focus is students and their on-going achievement.
A team of outside peers including principals, teachers, counselors, and educators trained by WASC will visit Lincoln and determine if the following is true of our school:
- Focuses is the students and their on-going academic achievement.
- Maintains a qualified faculty.
- Shows we are an effectively organized school,
- Collaboratively assesses the quality of its educational programs on a regular basis
- Plans for the future
Who benefits from accreditation?
Everyone! WASC accreditation is a valuable service to the public, students and educational institutions themselves.
For example:
* The public wants to know if Lincoln is holding up a high standard of quality.
* The public wants to have assurance that the educational quality of programs and services offered by the institution are current, reflect high standards of quality, and are offered with integrity.
* Students can be assured that the institutions in which they seek to enroll have been reviewed and the educational programs that are offered have been evaluated for quality and relevance.
* Educational institutions benefit from the stimulus for self-study and self-improvement provided by the accreditation process.
Accreditation status also increases opportunities for public and private funding for both the institution and students and enhances the institution’s credibility and reputation.
