This would be the best possible meaning of the situation, though we still have a lot of people speaking out of both sides of their mouth (Lane saying in the same statement that “acceleration is not going away” and then later on talking about how we need to keep students grouped together through grade 10, and most of the people denying that acceleration is being removed pointing to the possibility of taking calculus in 12th grade only) and a lot of ways to go until 2026. Given what has gone on with the magnet school situation and the general “equity”/CRT movement in the Virginia DoE my trust that they will not look for another opportunity to sneak in “wanting to take courses at your ability level is racist and forbidden” is pretty low, assuming they even have backed off of it for now which is far from clear.