No question about it: The Democrats won the expectations game. Republicans convinced themselves that they would sweep to victory in a Red Wave Tuesday, but they fell drastically short.
All in Bacon's Rebellion
No question about it: The Democrats won the expectations game. Republicans convinced themselves that they would sweep to victory in a Red Wave Tuesday, but they fell drastically short.
In an effort to overcome “catastrophic learning loss” among Virginia school kids over the past five years, Governor Glenn Youngkin has ramped up efforts to recruit more tutors.
Democrats and the mainstream media were blindsided by the release of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data last week showing that 4th graders in Virginia experienced the greatest decline in learning between 2017 and 2022 of any state in the union.
Virginia’s nearly unique problem is unlimited funding, including unlimited out-of-state funding. Most other states have restrictions on both.
Governor Glenn Youngkin has told Southwest Virginia law enforcement officials that he would sign a bill charging drug dealers with homicide if they sold illegal drugs that resulted in an overdose death.
Virginia may have elected three Republicans to statewide office last year, but it’s still a blue state.
Virginia public schools lost 4% of their fall student memberships, a total of 46,165 students, between the fall of 2019 and the fall of 2021, while their budgets from the state went up.
“Students with disabilities in Fairfax County Public Schools are more likely than their peers without disabilities to be suspended and to fail state tests, a new report has found.”
“When you discard points and grades, you also discard objective measures of learning, thereby allowing people to claim learning has happened when it has not,”
All 15 public colleges in Virginia have acceded to a request by Governor Glenn Youngkin to forebear on raising tuition during a year in which Virginia families have been pummeled by 9% inflation.
Education used to be an area of broad agreement. It is no longer.
Virginia’s school accreditation standards are failing to do their job.
It is no wonder SOL scores in many schools continue to be dismal, teachers and students quit and students are chronically absent in droves.
In a profound disagreement over philosophy, The Libertarian Party of Virginia has voted to dissolve itself.
Three Virginia Universities scored in the top 25 institutions in the 2022-23 College Free Speech Rankings published this week by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).
Virginians may finally be waking up to the consequences of the headlong rush to adopt utopian energy policies under our previous governor.
I fully expect, and so do you, that the Biden administration will try to prevent this from working or at least being seen as a good idea, especially before the mid-terms.