Sometimes you just need to go to the documents to see what the Virginia Department of Education is up to. This example will tell you everything you want to know.
All in Bacon's Rebellion
Crazy Talk: Jennifer McClellan
If you’re looking for craziness in Virginia, it’s not hard to find.
End the Emergency Orders. Now. Every One.
The rules in place are really starting to look stupid. President Joe Biden, Governor Northam and all the others holding onto and consciously modeling needless restrictions are the real anti-vaxxers now. They are the ones clearly rejecting all the scientific evidence of vaccine effectiveness.
Still Clueless After All These Years
Yet surely, if VMI was still venerating statues in 1980 for the purpose of “terrorizing and intimidating” black Virginians, even the oblivious Northam would have noticed. Clearly, that was not the case.
Did Joe Biden Just Cost Virginia Democrats 47,000 Votes?
The ACLU has jumped into this on the side of racial justice which means even more voters could become activated to vote against this ban or support those who are being disproportionately affected by it. #WokeNonSmoker
Yeah, the Parole Board Scandal Really Is a Scandal
For once, the mainstream media has been doing its job and covering the scandal, which shows how the Northam administration does business. (
Virginia Board of Education Marches Virginia’s Children into the Abyss
The Governor, limited to a single term, appoints the Virginia Board of Education.
It recently has demonstrated that it is the most powerful of state boards by crafting the most extreme progressive overhaul of a state education system, ever, anywhere.
VDOE Transgender Policies Dangerous to Both Children and School Personnel
Virginia’s Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools is a bigger mess the more I study it.
When “Words Are Violence,” Only One Side Gets to Speak
Conservatives are mostly invisible at UVa, and they have few means of connecting.
McAuliffe Goes Full “Racist, Racist, Racist”
Here’s how you know Terry McAuliffe now thinks the Republican to beat in the race for governor this fall is no longer Amanda Chase, but Kirk Cox: He’s shifted the animus of his race-mongering fund-raising emails from the one to the other.
Fairfax County Should Be Renamed Fairtax County… Er, Make that Unfairtax County
Sales prices for houses have been soaring across the country — by double digits in many metropolitan areas — and so are real estate property assessments. When assessments go up, so do taxes.
In 2019, 49% of Virginia’s Black 4th graders Could Not Read – Mississippi Offers Hope
Since 2013, Mississippi has made unprecedented, best-in-the-nation improvement in the academic achievements of its children starting as measured in nationwide testing.
VCU Bows to Reality, Proposes to Hold Tuition Flat
Miracle of miracles! Virginia Commonwealth University President Michael Rao is proposing to keep tuition flat in the next academic year.
Look in the Mirror, Fairfax School Board
After months of condemning Asian students for dominating the merit-based testing process for admission into the Thomas Jefferson (TJ) High School for Science and Technology, the Fairfax County School Board has issued a statement condemning anti-Asian racism… which it blames on others.
Distrust Simplistic Narratives about Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
Attorney General Mark Herring has long made an issue of the rise in hate crimes and white supremacy, which he has conflated as largely one and the same.
The Resistance Gathers: UVa Edition
We need alumni and parents to push back against the irrational, and frankly intolerable, guidelines which are currently tarnishing the culture and reputation of this University, while imposing enduring damage on every one of its students.
In the Face of Local Resistance, Can Virginia Meet Its Solar Goals?
Virginia needs to build dozens of square miles of solar panels if there is any hope of reaching the goal of a zero-carbon electric grid by 2045 in Dominion Energy territory and 2050 across the state.
Confessions of a Virginia Whistleblower
I decided last week in a paroxysm of good citizenship to contact the Virginia Inspector General (IG) to report wrongdoing by state officials.
Private-Equity Ownership and Nursing Home Qualit
Several days ago, Carol J. Bova published data showing that 50 of the 101 Virginia nursing-home facilities rated as below average in the latest Medicare ratings belong to privately owned firms.